Stray Leaves from a Convict ShipDaniel Ritchie |
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... object to present a picture of the moral and intellectual condition of our convict population , which would convey an accurate representation of these as they really exist . No method appeared to him better fitted to accomplish his ...
... object to present a picture of the moral and intellectual condition of our convict population , which would convey an accurate representation of these as they really exist . No method appeared to him better fitted to accomplish his ...
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... objects than the solitude of a cell . Here , alone with God and a wounded conscience , the unhappy man is forced to exercise his powers of reflection , and thus acquires a command over his sensual impulses which will probably exert a ...
... objects than the solitude of a cell . Here , alone with God and a wounded conscience , the unhappy man is forced to exercise his powers of reflection , and thus acquires a command over his sensual impulses which will probably exert a ...
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... object in view— the moral reformation of the criminal . What , then , it may be asked , has been our experience of the results of that system in the Pestonjee Bomanjee ? To this inquiry we reply , that it was most favourable . The ...
... object in view— the moral reformation of the criminal . What , then , it may be asked , has been our experience of the results of that system in the Pestonjee Bomanjee ? To this inquiry we reply , that it was most favourable . The ...
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... object being simply to state the fact that convict labour is highly valuable , and that if it can be rendered available to society without a counteracting moral influence , an object of great importance , in a national point of view ...
... object being simply to state the fact that convict labour is highly valuable , and that if it can be rendered available to society without a counteracting moral influence , an object of great importance , in a national point of view ...
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... objects of the imagination , divest punishment of half its rigour . It thus becomes merely a probationary dis- cipline , which the prisoner gratefully acknowledges has been instituted entirely for his advantage . That it should ...
... objects of the imagination , divest punishment of half its rigour . It thus becomes merely a probationary dis- cipline , which the prisoner gratefully acknowledges has been instituted entirely for his advantage . That it should ...
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Act-act appears beauty behold bestowed Bonnington Fall bury its dead character colony condition conduct consequences consider Continued convict crime criminal dead past bury death deck displayed duty endeavour eternal evil excited existence fate favourable feeling friends given To fly guilt hand happiness heart Hobart Town holy hope howe'er pleasant human importance imprisonment individual industry intellect Lanark land Launceston Learn to labour Let the dead living present look ment mental mercy mind misery moral Mount Wellington nature Norfolk Island o'erhead object observed obtained ourselves passed penal labour Pestonjee Bomanjee placed position prisoners probably punishment pursuing reckless criminals regard render repentance river Derwent sentence separate confinement ship shore society sorrow soul Surgeon Superintendent Tasmania thee thou ticket of leave tion transportation Trust no future unhappy Van Dieman's Land vessel vice Vide Note virtuous voyage waves WEEKLY RECORD wind writer
Popular passages
Page 244 - How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.
Page 111 - Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, — act in the living present! Heart within, and GOD o'erhead!
Page 247 - And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Page 155 - Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.
Page 43 - It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Page 236 - In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife! Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Page 249 - Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, and touch not the unclean thing...
Page 100 - As I live, saith the Lord, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked ; but that the wicked turn from his way and live.
Page 158 - Oh ! bloodiest picture in the book of Time Sarmatia fell unwept, without a crime ; Found not a generous friend, a pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe...
Page 125 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.