 | 1812 - 428 pages
...the county witli the expense. 1 therefore rode into several neighbouring counties in search of one : but I soon learned that the same injustice was practised in them ; and looking into the prisons, 1 beheld scenes of calamity, which I grew daily more and more anxious to alleviate. In order, therefore,... | |
 | 1850 - 938 pages
...a precedent for changing the county with the expense. I, therefore, rode into several neighbouring counties in search of a precedent; but I soon learned...I grew daily more and more anxious to alleviate." These oppressions, these calamities, he dragged to light. He may be said to haverfimn-eredthem— soindiftVi... | |
 | James Baldwin Brown - 1823 - 702 pages
...wanted a precedent for charging the county with the expense. I therefore rode into several neighbouring counties in search of a precedent ; but I soon learned...I grew daily more and more anxious to alleviate." In the jail at Bedford, every prisoner, whether debtor or felon, however justly he might be entitled... | |
 | 1824 - 542 pages
...a precedent for charging the county with the expense. I, therefore, rode into several neighbouring counties in search of a precedent ; but I soon learned...calamity, which I grew daily more and more anxious to atleviate."— P. 183. Such is Mr. Howard's own account of the circumstances which first led him to... | |
 | 1825 - 864 pages
...wanted a precedent for charging the county with the expense. I therefore rude into several neighbouring counties in search of a precedent ; but I soon learned...practised in them ; and, looking into the prisons, 1 beheld scenes of calamity, which I grew daily more and more anxious to alleviate." p. 123. Mr. Howard,... | |
 | James Baldwin Brown - 1831 - 388 pages
...wanted a precedent for charging the county with the expense. 1 therefore rode into several neighbouring counties in search of a precedent : but I soon learned...I grew daily more and more anxious to alleviate." The principal local defects which he noticed in the construction of the jail at Bedford were, that... | |
 | Mrs. John Farrar - 1833 - 298 pages
...wanted a precedent for charging the county with the expense. I therefore rode into several neighbouring counties in search of a precedent ; but I soon learned...I grew daily more and more anxious to alleviate." Here then his great work was begun, and we shall see how diligently he prosecuted it to the end of... | |
 | 1834 - 602 pages
...wanted a precedent for charging the county with the expense. I therefore rode into several neighbouring counties, in search of a precedent ; but I soon learned...into the prisons, I beheld scenes of calamity which 1 grew daily more and more anxious to alleviate." In consequence of what he had beheld in this benevolent... | |
 | Thomas Taylor (biographer.) - 1836 - 482 pages
...the county with the expense. I therefore rode into several neighbouring counties in search of one : but I soon learned that the same injustice was practised in them ; and on examining the state of the prisons, I beheld scenes of calamity, which I grew daily more and more... | |
 | 1850 - 806 pages
...a precedent for charging the county with the expense. I, therefore, rode into several neighbouring counties in search of a precedent; but I soon learned...I grew daily more and more anxious to alleviate." These oppressions, these calamities, he dragged to light. He may be said to haverfiscouerecfthem—... | |
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The bench were properly affected with the grievance, and willing to grant the relief desired : but they wanted a precedent for charging the county with the expense. I therefore rode into several neighbouring counties in search of... 
