Solitude in Imprisonment: With Proper Profitable Labour and a Spare Diet, the Most Humane and Effectual Means of Bringing Malefactors, who Have Forfeited Their Lives, Or are Subject to Transportation, to a Right Snse of Their Condition; with Proposals for Salutary Prevention ...

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J. Bew, 1776 - Prisons - 144 pages
 

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Page 69 - Britain for the time bein;, are directed and required to pay accordingly, without any further or other warrant in that behalf.
Page 105 - A malefactor риЛо death in the ordinary way of execution, is no object of terror, not even to him who attends the execution...
Page 1 - ... under the direction of a committee. In 1774 he published, " Virtue in humble Life : containing Reflections on the reciprocal Duties of the wealthy and indigent. In a Dialogue between a father and his daughter. With a Manual of Devotion," two volumes, 8vo. In 1775 " The Defects of the Police the Cause of Immorality and the continual Robberies committed in and about the Metropolis...
Page 105 - ... terror, as might happily keep it empty ; which would be the glory of tbe plan!

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