Life Among Convicts, Volume 1Hurst and Blackett, 1863 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 125 - Whose unimprisoned waters run, Wild as the changes of a dream, By rock and glen, through shade and sun ; Its lovely links had power to bind In welcome chains my wandering mind. So thought I when I saw the face, By happy portraiture...
Pagina 228 - Thou canst not toil in vain — Cold, heat, and moist, and dry Shall foster and mature the grain For garners in the sky. Thence, when the glorious end, The day of God is come, The angel-reapers shall descend, And heaven cry " Harvest home ! " James Montgomery, I77i,-1854, HOME.
Pagina 228 - The good, the fruitful ground, Expect not here nor there ; O'er hill and dale, by plots, 'tis found : Go forth, then, everywhere.
Pagina 93 - Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for ! Even that it would please God to destroy me ; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Pagina 228 - Beside all waters sow, The highway furrows stock, Drop it where thorns and thistles grow, Scatter it on the rock.
Pagina 125 - But soon an humbler course it took, And glid away a nameless brook. Flowers on its grassy margin sprang, Flies o'er its eddying surface play'd, Birds midst the alder-branches sang, Flocks through the verdant meadows stray'd ; The weary there lay down to rest, And there the halcyon built her nest. 'Twas...
Pagina 297 - ... That fellow, when I was starving in the Berrima Iron Gang, has often passed me by without so much as giving me a shilling, when he had many pounds which were justly mine in his hands. And now, would it not be right that they should lose all they possess as a judgment upon them for withholding his own from the poor prisoner ? Heaven guide me and point out to me what to do.* Well, I went into the house again, and we had another glass of rum round. Now it was a cold, windy night, so I took up the...
Pagina 128 - It shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by an order in writing under the hand and seal of one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, to grant to any convict now under sentence of transportation, or who may hereafter be sentenced to transportation, or to any punishment substituted for transportation by this act, a...
Pagina 4 - The men sleep in hammocks in the hut, and all that one can say is, that while they are inside it, they have shelter; but the moment they leave it, they are exposed to every wind of heaven, and to all the rain of that humid climate. In point of mere physical comfort, the advantage is altogether on the side of an Ordinary Prison, to say nothing of a well-warmed cell at Wakefield or Pentonville.
Pagina 20 - Upon this, I who took the boldness to speak freely before the Cardinal, said, there was no reason to wonder at the matter, since this way of punishing thieves was neither just in itself nor good for the public; for as the severity was too great, so the remedy was not effectual; simple theft not being so great a crime that it ought to cost a man his life, no punishment how severe soever being able to restrain those from robbing who can find out no other way of livelihood. 'In this...