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Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson. Son 3620.1.35 HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY MAR 1 1940 From the Gift of Arthur Houghton G PREFACE HERE are several Lives of Howard in ex- TH.
Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson. Son 3620.1.35 HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY MAR 1 1940 From the Gift of Arthur Houghton G PREFACE HERE are several Lives of Howard in ex- TH.
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... Lives by Aikin and Brown . Of these Aikin's View of the Character and Public Services of the late John Howard ( 1792 ) is our earliest authority , and has the advantage of being written by one of Howard's closest personal friends . It ...
... Lives by Aikin and Brown . Of these Aikin's View of the Character and Public Services of the late John Howard ( 1792 ) is our earliest authority , and has the advantage of being written by one of Howard's closest personal friends . It ...
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... Lives , such as that by Hepworth Dixon , have been consulted , but none of them add materially to our knowledge . In regard to the illustrations it may be well to note that the history of the frontispiece is given on p . 190. The ...
... Lives , such as that by Hepworth Dixon , have been consulted , but none of them add materially to our knowledge . In regard to the illustrations it may be well to note that the history of the frontispiece is given on p . 190. The ...
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... live a life of ease and comfort , with Clapton as his head - quarters . To this period belongs the earliest anecdote that has come down to us of him , and , slight as the incident is , it may be mentioned here as illustrative of the ...
... live a life of ease and comfort , with Clapton as his head - quarters . To this period belongs the earliest anecdote that has come down to us of him , and , slight as the incident is , it may be mentioned here as illustrative of the ...
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... lives , by secret barbarous ways , That for their country would have toiled or bled . O great design ! if executed well , With patient care and wisdom - tempered zeal . Ye sons of mercy ! yet resume the search ; Drag forth the legal ...
... lives , by secret barbarous ways , That for their country would have toiled or bled . O great design ! if executed well , With patient care and wisdom - tempered zeal . Ye sons of mercy ! yet resume the search ; Drag forth the legal ...
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Admiral Aikin Aikin's View attention Bedford bridewells Brown's Cardington Cherson confined Correspondence of John county gaols criminals DEAR death debtors dungeons England English prisons engraving erected fees felons Field's Correspondence France French French Flanders gaol fever gaoler gentleman Gentleman's Magazine Germany give given Harlot's Progress Holland honour hope houses of correction Howard found inquiry Ireland Italy John Howard John Prole journey keepers labours lady later Lazarettos letter live London Magazine for 1790 magistrates Mather Brown Naples National Portrait Gallery never night occasion paid passed Paul's persons poor portrait Priestman Prince Potemkin prison discipline prisons and hospitals punishment received reform Russia Samuel Whitbread servant sick Smith spent Stoughton's suffered taken tell things Thomasson thought tion told took torture Toulon tour town travelled Turkey Venice Warrington week
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Seite 41 - I cannot name this gentleman without remarking that his labours and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind. He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the...
Seite 41 - ... to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries. His plan is original ; and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery ; a circumnavigation of charity.
Seite 62 - Unpitied, and unheard, where misery moans; Where sickness pines; where thirst and hunger burn, And poor misfortune feels the lash of vice. While in the land of liberty, the land Whose every street and public meeting glow With open freedom, little tyrants...
Seite 40 - I beheld scenes of calamity, which I grew daily more and more anxious to alleviate. In order therefore to gain a more perfect knowledge of the particulars and extent of it, by various and accurate observation, I visited most of the county gaols in England.
Seite 163 - An Account of the principal Lazarettos in Europe ; with various Papers relative to the Plague ! together with further observations on some Foreign Prisons and Hospitals, and additional Remarks on the present state of those in Great Britain and Ireland.
Seite 43 - I could not bear the windows drawn up, and was therefore often obliged to travel on horseback. The leaves of my memorandum-book were often so tainted, that I could not use it till after spreading it an hour or two before the fire. And even my antidote, a vial of vinegar, has after using it in a few prisons, become intolerably disagreeable. I did not wonder that in those journeys many gaolers made excuses and did not go with me into the felons wards.
Seite 168 - Should it please God to cut off my life in the prosecution of this design, let not my conduct be uncandidly imputed to rashness or enthusiasm, but to a serious, deliberate conviction, that I am pursuing the path of duty ;. and to a sincere desire of being made an instrument of more extensive usefulness to my fellow-creatures, than could be expected in the narrower circle of a retired life.
Seite 63 - The toils of law (what dark insidious men Have cumbrous added to perplex the truth, And lengthen simple justice into trade), How glorious were the day ! that saw these broke, And every man within the reach of right.
Seite 67 - I was fully convinced that many more prisoners were destroyed by it than were put to death by all the public executions in the kingdom...
Seite 62 - Into the horrors of the gloomy jail? Unpitied and unheard, where misery moans; Where Sickness pines; where Thirst and Hunger burn, And poor Misfortune feels the lash of Vice.