He failed in this and was disgraced, narrowly missing a death penalty. After the unfortunate Liu Tsiang, the next reference to alchemy occurred in the second or third century BC, where a book called ‘Tsan-tung-
It appears there was stil a major counterfeiting problem, as one would expect with these token coins containing so little value in their metal being forced to circulate at such high values. Wang Mang introduced the death penalty for counterfeiting although that does not appear to have solved the...
called “higher powers” were. The way ancient nationalities projected their beliefs and punishment onto their gods is a very interesting contemplation. Was ripping people you disagree with to shreds and using their crotch to hold up the heavens really what people thought was an appropriate penalty...
The inferior kinds of property are first, from disdain236 and disregard, released from the perplexed237 ceremonies in which primitive law delights, and thus afterwards, in another state of intellectual progress, the simple methods of transfer and recovery which have been allowed to come into use ...
Furthermore, as one of the methods of retaining a reluctant girl is to put her hopelessly in debt and always to charge against her the expenses incurred in securing her, Marie as an imported girl had begun at once with the huge debt of the ocean journey for Paret and herself. In ...
Being nailed to crosses and being burnt to death are two methods which are specifically mentioned. Such treatment evoked compassion from the people, and Tacitus blamed these events on the eccentricities of Nero. Christians were sometimes reported as lawbreakers (Pliny, cf. Trajan, Hadrian) for ...
Both ML and NJ methods support the rickettsia-eukaryotic SLP-2 group, although their position within this clade is much less resolved. Figure 1 Maximum likelihood (ML) phylogeny of stomatin family members. Neighbour Joining (NJ) and ML trees were constructed with the same 149 amino acid ...
By invoking large porphyrin rings as electron carriers, the desolvation penalty for electrons could be decreased and the transfer of electrons across the membrane could be accelerated, see e.g. [101]. Further acceleration could be achieved by translocating a proton together with an electron; such ...
and gave birth to those who take the righteousness also. Life is what I want, want more than the living, it is not as (W I) (G I U) Gou too; death is my evil (W connected), evil (W connected) is more than the dead, so get not open (b) also. If a man desires more tha...
The reason that the Imperial Counsellor Gongsun Hong 公孙弘 (200–121 BCE) gave for rec- ommending the death penalty for Guo Jie was that he interfered with govern- ment authority, which was "even more serious than killing others." That is to say, private violence seriously interfered with...