Prison Discipline: And the Advantages of the Separate System of Imprisonment, with a Detailed Account of the Discipline Now Pursued in the New County Gaol, at Reading, Volumen2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1848 |
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Página 19 - But to learn and labour truly to get mine own living, And to do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me.
Página 98 - This is not by way of atonement or expiation for the crime committed ; for that must be left to the just determination of the Supreme Being : but as a precaution against future offences of the same kind.
Página 97 - THE proper end of human punishment is not the satisfaction of justice, but the prevention of crimes. By the satisfaction of justice, I mean the retribution of so much pain for so much guilt ; which is the dispensation we expect at the hand of God, and which we are accustomed to consider as the order of things that perfect justice dictates and requires. In what sense, or whether with truth in any sense, justice may be said to demand...
Página 98 - ... pain. All punishment is an evil, though a necessary one. The pain produced by the offence is one evil ; the pain produced by the punishment is an additional evil; though the latter is necessary, in order to prevent the recurrence of the offence. Consequently a penal system ought to aim at economizing pain, by diffusing the largest amount of salutary terror, and thereby deterring as much as possible from crimes, at the smallest expense of punishments actually inflicted ; or (as the idea is concisely...
Página 2 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people, and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country to the discredit of the plantation.
Página 141 - But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Página 257 - Some friend is gone, perhaps his son's best friend A father, whose authority, in show When most severe, and mustering all its force, Was but the graver countenance of love...
Página 89 - London are planned in the prisons, and by that dreadful assemblage of criminals, and the number of idle people who visit them.
Página 54 - Of immortality. So little knows Any, but God alone, to value right The good before him, but perverts best things To worst abuse, or to their meanest use.
Página 328 - It is not in human nature for the mind to be stationary ; it must progress in virtue or in vice : nothing promotes this progress so much as the emulation created by society; and from the nature of the society will it receive its direction.