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 ReadingLongman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1848 |
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Página 61 - Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace— are
Página 249 - And I will place within them as a guide " My umpire conscience ; whom if they will hear, " Light 'after light, well us'd, they shall attain, " And to the end, persisting, safe arrive.
Página 284 - the science of improving the temper, and making the heart better. This is the field assigned us to cultivate ; how much it has lain neglected, is indeed astonishing. Virtue is demonstrably the happiness of man : it consists in good actions, proceeding from a good
Página 170 - him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good.
Página vi - touched with human woe, redressive search'd " Into the horrors of the gloomy jail ? " Unpitied, and unheard, where mis'ry moans ; " Where sickness pines ; where thirst and hunger bum, " And poor misfortune feels the lash of vice. * * * " O great design ! if executed well,
Página 216 - you can come once to shame them out of their faults, for besides that I would willingly have no punishment, and make them in love with the pleasure of being well thought on, you may turn them as you please, and they will be in love with all the ways of
Página 109 - to answer, Yes : but raising her eyes, and meeting that glimpse of freedom over-head, she burst into tears, and said, •' She tried to be ; she uttered no complaint; but it was natural that she should sometimes long to go out of that one cell; she could not help that," she sobbed, poor thing!
Página 25 - that next to the free goodness and mercy of the Author of my being, temperance and cleanliness are my preservatives. Trusting in Divine Providence, and believing myself in the way of my duty, I visit the most noxious cells; and while so
Página 16 - In many gaols, and in most bridewells, there is no allowance of bedding or straw for prisoners to sleep on; and if by any means they get a little, it is not changed for months together, so that it is almost worn to dust. Some lie upon rags, others upon the bare floors.
Página 18 - Through me you pass into the city of woe : Through me you pass into eternal pain, Through me among the people lost for aye. ********* All hope abandon ye who enter