 | 1814 - 556 pages
...servations in 1772 and 1773, ' says Mr Howard, * ' 1 was fully convinced that many more were destroyed by it than were put to death by all the public executions in the kingdom. This frequent effect of confinement in prison seems generally understood, and shows how full of emphatical... | |
 | 1812 - 428 pages
...observations in 1773, 1774 and 1775, 1 was fully convinced that many more prisoners were destroyed by it, than were put to death by all the public executions in the kingdom." This is surely dreadful. The number of those who die through the paroxysm of the gaol fever, is small... | |
 | James Baldwin Brown - 1831 - 388 pages
...which young delinquents especially were trained in habits of idleness, and schooled in every vice. He then calls the attention of his readers to that...gross inattention to the sick, which he witnessed. He closes his account with an appeal to pharisaical Christians. It is short, and therefore I shall... | |
 | 1843 - 524 pages
...Fever, by which, in 1773-4, Mr. Howard, from his own observations, remarks, that more were destroyed than were put to death by all the public executions in the kingdom, — which, at a time when the punishment of death was inflicted for one hundred and sixty different... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1843 - 532 pages
...Fever, by which, in 1773-4, Mr. Howard, from his own observations, remarks, that more were destroyed than were put to death by all the public, executions in the kingdom, — which, at a time when the punishment of death was inflicted for one hundred and sixty different... | |
 | 1843 - 1040 pages
...Fever, by which, in 1773-4, Mr. Howard, from his own obseivations, remarks, that more were destroyed than were put to death by all the public executions in the kingdom, — which, at a time when the punishment of death was inflicted for one hundred and sixty different... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1846 - 484 pages
..."made in 1773, 74, 75, 1 am fully convinced that many more prisoners were destroyed by the gaol fever than were put to death by all the public executions in the kingdom." How many rich and how many good men were there at that period who sat down utterly ignorant of these... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 934 pages
...observations in 1773, 1774, and 1775, 1 was fully convinced that many more prisoners were destroyed by it than were put to death by all the public executions in the kingdom.* This frequent eftect of confinement in prison seems generally understood, and shows how full of emphatical... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1850 - 566 pages
...observations in 1772 and 1773," says Mr. Howard, " I was fully convinced that many more were destroyed by it than were put to death by all the public executions in the kingdom ; " and this was when there were one hundred and sixty offences punishable by death. Another flagrant... | |
 | Joseph Kingsmill - 1854 - 534 pages
...— " From my own observations, I was fully convinced that many more were destroyed by the gaol-fever than were put to death by all the public executions in the kingdom. I have a Table printed from a large copper-plate, in 1772, by Sir Stephen Theodore Janssen, showing... | |
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I was fully convinced that many more prisoners were destroyed by it than were put to death by all the public executions in the kingdom... 
