Our Convicts, 1권Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1864 - 673페이지 |
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167 페이지 - 3. To produce a forfeiture of the License it is by no means necessary that the holder should be convicted of any new offence. If he associates with notoriously bad characters, leads an idle and dissolute life, or has no visible means of obtaining an honest livelihood, <&c. , it will be assumed that he is about to relapse into crime, and he will be at once apprehended, and recommitted to prison under his original sentence...
230 페이지 - Burton, in his charge to the grand jury of Sydney (to which document your Committee have already referred), after giving a vivid description of ' the crimes of violence, the murders, the manslaughters and drunken revels, the perjuries, the false witnesses from motives of revenge or reward, which in the proceedings before him had been brought to light...
230 페이지 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation ; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country to the discredit of the plantation.
76 페이지 - The sole direct object of secondary punishment should therefore, it is conceived, be the reform, if possible, but, at all events, the adequate subjugation and training to self-command of the individuals subjected to them ; so that, before they can regain their full privileges in society, after once forfeiting them, they must give satisfactory proof that they again deserve and are not likely to abuse them.
120 페이지 - India," but, inasmuch as rupees are still legal tender to any amount, and Mr. Gladstone stated in the House of Commons in answer to a question from me on July 21, " that it is not at present intended to issue gold against rupees," it is difficult to understand in what sense a gold standard can be said to be introduced.
77 페이지 - I landed, yet not a single place of worship was erected on it. It had been seven years a settlement before even a clergyman was sent. There were no schools, no books ; and the men's countenances reflected faithfully this description of treatment. A more demoniacal assemblage could not be imagined, and almost the most formidable sight I ever beheld was the sea of faces upturned to me when I first addressed them.
77 페이지 - ... number. In every way their feelings were habitually outraged, and their self-respect destroyed. They were required to cap each private soldier whom they met, and even each empty sentry-box that they passed. If they met a superior officer they were to take off their caps altogether, and stand aside, bareheaded, in a ditch if necessary, and whatever the weather, till he passed, in most cases without taking the smallest notice of them.
24 페이지 - I have been told a thousand times to go and get work, but it was never said to me, during twenty years, while in and out of prison,
228 페이지 - Bless my soul, you do not mean to say so!' was the astonished rejoinder. " As he regained his self-respect, ANDERSON revealed a noble generous heart, and a gay and sociable disposition; but his excitability eventually became madness, and not long after, the benefactor who had restored him, and hundreds like him, to the feelings and duties of humanity, was peremptorily recalled from the scene of his philanthropic...
77 페이지 - A more demoniacal assemblage could not be imagined, and almost the most formidable sight I ever beheld was the sea of faces upturned to me when I first addressed them. Yet, three years afterwards, I had the satisfaction of hearing Sir George Gipps ask me what I had done to make the men look so well ? he had seldom seen a better looking set ; they were quite equal to new prisoners from England.