 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
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1882 - 514 Seiten
...expense. I therefore rode into several neighboring 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. Hep worth Dixon's "Life" there... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1883 - 410 Seiten
...expense. I therefore rode into several neighbouring 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,... | |
 | 1872 - 630 Seiten
...imperfect idea, came more immediately under my notice when I was sheriff of the county of Bedford; . . . and looking into the prisons, I beheld scenes of calamity...I grew daily more and more anxious to alleviate." This was in 1773, all but a century ago, and the work then begun was continued by Howard till his death,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1894 - 442 Seiten
...the expense. I therefore rode into several neighbouring 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,... | |
 | Charles William Colby - 1899 - 378 Seiten
...expense. I therefore rode into several neighbouring counties in search of one ; but I soon learned that the same injustice was practised in them ; and...observation, I visited most of the county gaols in England. Seeing in two or three of them some poor creatures whose aspect was singularly deplorable, and asking... | |
 | Charles William Colby - 1899 - 398 Seiten
...expense. I therefore rode into several neighbouring counties in search of one ; but I soon learned that the same injustice was practised in them ; and...observation, I visited most of the county gaols in England. Seeing in two or three of them some poor creatures whose aspect was singularly deplorable, and asking... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1922 - 210 Seiten
...PRISONS EIGHTEENTH CENTURY PRISONS ACCORDING TO JOHN HOWARD " LOOKING into the prisons, I [John Howard] beheld scenes of calamity which I grew daily more...various and accurate observation, I visited most of the County-Gaols in England." These plain and unpretentious words usher in a record of activities which,... | |
 | John G. Rowe - 1927 - 138 Seiten
...learned,' he states, ' that the same injustice was practised in them (all the other county gaols) ; and looking into the prisons, I beheld scenes of calamity...various and accurate observation, I visited most of the CountyGaols in England.' John Howard was not the first man who took up the cause of prison reform.... | |
 | 1952 - 74 Seiten
...counties ; but I soon learned that the same injustice was practiced in them; and looking into their prisons, I beheld scenes of calamity which I grew daily more and more anxious to alleviate. . . ." So wrote one of the world's most famous sheriffs in the eighteenth century — the renowned... | |
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