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. John Howard - Seite 40von Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson - 1902 - 211 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Christians - 1856 - 452 Seiten
...he soon discovered others. " I rode," he adds, " into several neighbouring counties. I soon learned that the same injustice was practised in them ; and...accurate observation, I visited most of the county jails in England." In this singular " circumnavigation of charity," as Burke calls it, Howard found... | |
| William O. Blake - 1856 - 1122 Seiten
...was yet to sound. ' Looking into the prisons,' he says, ' I beheld scenes of calamity which I became daily more and more anxious to alleviate. In order,...accurate observation, I visited most of the county jails in England.' This more extensive tour was begun in December 1773, and by the 17th of that month... | |
| John Field - 1856 - 332 Seiten
...I therefore rode into several neighbour 1 773 • ing counties in search of one; but I soon learned that the same injustice was practised in them ; and, looking into the prisons, beheld scenes of calamity, which I grew daily more and more anxious to alleviate. In order, therefore,... | |
| John Hampden Gurney - 1858 - 482 Seiten
...one ; but I soon learned that the same injustice was practised in them, and, looking into prisons, beheld scenes of calamity which I grew daily more...observation, I visited most of the County Gaols in England." While the Justices were hesitating as to the removal of such a flagrant wrong, the following printed... | |
| Oliver Prescott Hiller - 1858 - 482 Seiten
...expense. I therefore rode into several neighbouring counties in search of a precedent; but I soon learned that the same injustice was practised in them; and...I grew daily more and more anxious to alleviate." We thus perceive that it was from no Quixotic conceit of setting out to redress public disorders, (as... | |
| 1865 - 392 Seiten
...neighboring counties in search of a precedent; but I soon learned that the same injustice was practiced in them ; and looking into the prisons I beheld scenes...accurate observation, I visited most of the county jails in England. Seeing in two or three of them some poor creatures whose aspect was singularly deplorable,... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1871 - 272 Seiten
...was yet to sound. ' Looking into the prisons,' he says, ' I beheld scenes of calamity which I became daily more and more anxious to alleviate. In order,...accurate observation, I visited most of the county jails in England.' This more extensive tour was begun in December 1773, and by the 1 7th of that month... | |
| James Francis Cobb - 1876 - 258 Seiten
...expense. I therefore rode into several neighbouring counties in search of a precedent, but I soon learned that the same injustice was practised in them; and...I grew daily more and more anxious to alleviate." Such was the commencement of that grand and noble work which has made the name of John Howard famous... | |
| Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer.) - 1879 - 234 Seiten
...expense. I therefore rode into several neighbouring counties in search of a precedent, but I soon learned that the same injustice was practised in them; and,...I grew daily more and more anxious to alleviate.' Such was the commencement of that grand and noble work which has made the name of John Howard famous... | |
| Henry James Nicoll - 1881 - 506 Seiten
...I, therefore, rode into several neighbouring counties in search of a precedent ; but I soon learned that the same injustice was practised in them ; and...I grew daily more and more anxious to alleviate.' It was to no light or easy task that Howard addressed himself. In Mr. Hepworth Dixon's ' Life,' there... | |
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