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... convicts , cannot fail to prove worthy of attention . The rules laid down by him being the result of long experience both by sea and land , are well calculated to afford useful hints to such benevolent legislators as are occupied about ...
... convicts , cannot fail to prove worthy of attention . The rules laid down by him being the result of long experience both by sea and land , are well calculated to afford useful hints to such benevolent legislators as are occupied about ...
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... CONVICTS . FORMERLY CHIEF THE life of this gentleman is well calculated to demonstrate what may be achieved in a free country like this , by talents , character , and assiduity . The subject of this memoir was born at Gosport , in ...
... CONVICTS . FORMERLY CHIEF THE life of this gentleman is well calculated to demonstrate what may be achieved in a free country like this , by talents , character , and assiduity . The subject of this memoir was born at Gosport , in ...
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... convict system , and on that occasion uniting humanity with a knowledge of the world , formed a code for the regulation of this class of delinquents , that subsists , and , it is to be hoped , is acted upon until this day . It is not to ...
... convict system , and on that occasion uniting humanity with a knowledge of the world , formed a code for the regulation of this class of delinquents , that subsists , and , it is to be hoped , is acted upon until this day . It is not to ...
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... convicts was also confided to their care , so that all com- plaint was stifled , and remonstrance became impracticable . The consequence was such as might have been easily foreseen . The sick list encreased daily , and deaths became ...
... convicts was also confided to their care , so that all com- plaint was stifled , and remonstrance became impracticable . The consequence was such as might have been easily foreseen . The sick list encreased daily , and deaths became ...
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... convicts , who were to be kept to hard labour therein , and for the more severe punishment of notorious offenders , it was made lawful to con- fine convicts liable to transportation , on board the hulks , under the management of ...
... convicts , who were to be kept to hard labour therein , and for the more severe punishment of notorious offenders , it was made lawful to con- fine convicts liable to transportation , on board the hulks , under the management of ...
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Página 322 - The Lord gave and the Lord taketh away; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Página 213 - And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul, and to let him have liberty, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister or come unto him.
Página 314 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Página 297 - The prince, unable to conceal his pain, Gaz'd on the fair, Who caus'd his care, And sigh'd and look'd, sigh'd and look'd, Sigh'd and look'd, and sigh'd again : At length with love and wine at once oppress'd, The vanquish'd victor sunk upon her breast.
Página 296 - Flushed with a purple grace He shows his honest face : Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain; Bacchus...
Página 296 - With flying fingers touched the lyre : The trembling notes ascend the sky And heavenly joys inspire. The song began from Jove Who left his blissful seats above — Such is the power of mighty love ! A dragon's fiery form belied the god ; Sublime on radiant...
Página 397 - ... promptitude and compass of knowledge confined in any degree to the studies connected with his ordinary pursuits. That he should have been minutely and extensively skilled in chemistry and the arts, and in most of the branches of physical science, might perhaps have been conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally known, that he was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, metaphysics, medicine, and etymology, and perfectly...
Página 395 - It has increased indefinitely the mass of human comforts and enjoyments; and rendered cheap and accessible, all over the world, the materials of wealth and prosperity. It has armed the feeble hand of man, in short, with a power to which no limits can be assigned; completed the dominion of mind over the most refractory qualities of matter; and laid a sure foundation for all those future miracles of mechanic power which are to aid and reward the labors of after generations.
Página 398 - He had a certain quiet and grave humour, which ran through most of his conversation, and a vein of temperate jocularity, which gave infinite zest and effect to the condensed and inexhaustible information which formed its main staple and characteristic. There was a little air. of affected testiness, and a tone of pretended rebuke and contradiction, with which he used to...