The North American Review, Band 66Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1848 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... convicts , is an important one , and might be discussed with some reference to the Irish poor , who usually have no bed- steads at all , but sleep in the mud . The projectors of the prison reform having played their part manfully and ...
... convicts , is an important one , and might be discussed with some reference to the Irish poor , who usually have no bed- steads at all , but sleep in the mud . The projectors of the prison reform having played their part manfully and ...
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... convict for his own sake ; no one who has com- mitted a grave offence against his fellow - beings can call upon them , not merely to support him , but to find a cure for his hardness of heart and habits of self - indulgence which have ...
... convict for his own sake ; no one who has com- mitted a grave offence against his fellow - beings can call upon them , not merely to support him , but to find a cure for his hardness of heart and habits of self - indulgence which have ...
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... convict is surrendered , body and soul , to be experimented upon . Hence the zeal and pertinacity with which discus- sions of this matter are conducted , and the strange manner in which abstract speculation has been allowed to ...
... convict is surrendered , body and soul , to be experimented upon . Hence the zeal and pertinacity with which discus- sions of this matter are conducted , and the strange manner in which abstract speculation has been allowed to ...
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... convict first , and you may talk about reforming him and protecting society against crime after- wards . Nearly all ... convicts who are exposed to it , that any continuance of it in practice is inhuman and unjust . Now there cannot be ...
... convict first , and you may talk about reforming him and protecting society against crime after- wards . Nearly all ... convicts who are exposed to it , that any continuance of it in practice is inhuman and unjust . Now there cannot be ...
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... convict within one year is two and a half times as great as the chance of his dy- ing within that year if he should remain at liberty . Is it humane or just to subject him to this increased hazard , when the court has sentenced him only ...
... convict within one year is two and a half times as great as the chance of his dy- ing within that year if he should remain at liberty . Is it humane or just to subject him to this increased hazard , when the court has sentenced him only ...
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Seite 228 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Seite 442 - THE DANDELION. DEAR common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride, uphold, High-hearted buccaneers, o'erjoyed that they An Eldorado in the grass have found, Which not the rich earth's ample round May match in wealth, — tliou art more dear to me Than all the prouder summerblooms may be.
Seite 204 - Died on his lips, and their motion revealed what his tongue would have spoken. Vainly he strove to rise ; and Evangeline, kneeling beside him, Kissed his dying lips, and laid his head on her bosom. Sweet was the light of his eyes; but it suddenly sank into darkness, As when a lamp is blown out by a gust of wind at a casement.
Seite 203 - Vacant their places were, or filled already by strangers. Suddenly, as if arrested by fear or a feeling of wonder, Still she stood, with her colorless lips apart, while a shudder Ran through her frame, and, forgotten, the flowerets dropped from her fingers, And from her eyes and cheeks the light and bloom of the morning. Then there escaped from her lips a cry of such terribls anguish, That the dying heard it, and started up from their pillows.
Seite 77 - Alike in the political and military line could be observed auctioneering ambassadors and trading generals : and thus we saw a revolution brought about by affidavits ! an army employed in executing an arrest ! a town besieged on a note of hand ! a prince dethroned for the balance of an account ! Thus it was they exhibited a government, which united the mock majesty of a bloody sceptre and the little traffic of a merchant's counting-house — wielding a truncheon with one hand, and picking a pocket...
Seite 443 - THE CHANGELING I HAD a little daughter, And she was given to me To lead me gently backward To the Heavenly Father's knee, That I, by the force of nature, Might in some dim wise divine The depth of his infinite patience To this wayward soul of mine.
Seite 215 - Livy. Selections from the first five books, together with the twenty-first and twenty-second books entire. With a Plan of Rome, and a Map of the Passage of Hannibal, and English Notes for the nse of Schools.
Seite 68 - I've bought the best champagne from Brooks. From liberal Brooks, whose speculative skill Is hasty credit, and a distant bill. Who, nursed in clubs, disdains a vulgar trade, Exults to trust, and blushes to be paid.
Seite 211 - And with these words of cheer they arose and continued their journey. Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden wand o'er the landscape ; Twinkling...