The British and Foreign Review: Or, European Quarterly Journal, Band 5J. Ridgeway amd sons, 1837 |
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... convict population ; and Secondly , that of transportation itself , considered as a means of secondary punishment ... convicts , though it censures in the strongest manner the present mismanagement of the sy- stem . The defect common ...
... convict population ; and Secondly , that of transportation itself , considered as a means of secondary punishment ... convicts , though it censures in the strongest manner the present mismanagement of the sy- stem . The defect common ...
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... convicts from Ireland , of " whom ninety - five per cent . are Roman Catholics , have hither- " to been sent to New South Wales , a great preponderance is " likely to be given to the ' Terry Alt and White Boy ' popu- " lation , which ...
... convicts from Ireland , of " whom ninety - five per cent . are Roman Catholics , have hither- " to been sent to New South Wales , a great preponderance is " likely to be given to the ' Terry Alt and White Boy ' popu- " lation , which ...
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... convicts was formally adopted by the English Government in the year 1619 , when James I. ordered a hundred dissolute persons to be sent to Virginia , on the principle that their labour would be more beneficial to an in- fant settlement ...
... convicts was formally adopted by the English Government in the year 1619 , when James I. ordered a hundred dissolute persons to be sent to Virginia , on the principle that their labour would be more beneficial to an in- fant settlement ...
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... convict population , in however small a proportion , has had some influence in establishing a lower standard of public mo- rality in the states of the South than in those of New England , to which no convicts were ever transported . But ...
... convict population , in however small a proportion , has had some influence in establishing a lower standard of public mo- rality in the states of the South than in those of New England , to which no convicts were ever transported . But ...
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... convicts , under a guard of about two hundred marines ( including officers ) , forty of whom were accompanied by their wives and children ; the Second Fleet , which arrived in the year 1790 , carrying out one thousand six hundred and ...
... convicts , under a guard of about two hundred marines ( including officers ) , forty of whom were accompanied by their wives and children ; the Second Fleet , which arrived in the year 1790 , carrying out one thousand six hundred and ...
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afford amongst amount Bank Directors Bank of England better Bible Blind Harry British bullion capital Catholic cause cent character Charles Lamb Christian Church circulation colony commercial common consequence Constantinople convicts court creditor crime criminal currency debt debtors demand deposits Edward effect emigrants English establishment evil exchange existence export favour feel foreign gold Government habits History of Scotland honour House important increase interest Ireland issues Jews John Comyn Joint Stock Banks king labour land less Lord means ment moral nation nature Norway object opinion party penal Pericles persons political poor Poor Law population Port Essington Porte possession present principle prison produce punishment reformation remarks render respect Russia Scotland securities settlement society South Wales spirit Storthing Talmud tion trade transportation truth Turkey Wallace whilst whole William Wallace words
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 352 - Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are ; and as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone to many, yea in some sort to our whole nation; let the glorious name of Jehovah have all the praise.
Seite 232 - And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee : blessed art thou among women.
Seite 339 - And whereas the enforcing of the conscience in matters of religion," such was the sublime tenor of a part of the statute, " hath frequently fallen out to be of dangerous consequence in those commonwealths where it has been practised, and for the more quiet and peaceable government of this province, and the better to preserve mutual love and amity among the inhabitants, no person within this province, professing to believe in Jesus Christ, shall be any ways troubled, molested, or discountenanced,...
Seite 362 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Seite 204 - Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!
Seite 531 - Lamb himself, the most delightful, the most provoking, the most witty and sensible of men. He always made the best pun, and the best remark in the course of the evening.
Seite 510 - She is older and -wiser and better than I, and all my wretched imperfections I cover to myself by resolutely thinking on her goodness. She would share life and death, heaven and hell, with me. She lives but for me ; and I know I have been wasting and teasing her life for five years past incessantly with my cursed drinking and ways of going on.
Seite 531 - He always made the best pun, and the best remark in the course of the evening. His serious conversation, like his serious writing, is his best. No one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half-sentences as he does. His jests scald like tears: and he probes a question with a play upon words.
Seite 527 - I gave away the cake to him. I walked on a little in all the pride of an Evangelical peacock, when of a sudden my old aunt's kindness crossed me; the sum it was to her; the pleasure...
Seite 362 - The Sensual and the Dark rebel in vain, Slaves by their own compulsion! In mad game They burst their manacles and wear the name Of Freedom, graven on a heavier chain!