 | 1814 - 556 Seiten
...my own obr 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... | |
 | James Baldwin Brown - 1823 - 702 Seiten
...our fleets, our armies, our courts of justice, and our towns, destroying in its progress many more than were put to death by all the public executions in the kingdom. Closely connected with this ground of complaint, was the gross inattention to the sick, which he witnessed... | |
 | James Baldwin Brown - 1831 - 388 Seiten
...our fleets, our armies, our courts of justice, and our towns, destroying in its progress many more than were put to death by all the public executions in the kingdom. Closely connected with this ground of complaint, was the gross inattention to the sick, which he witnessed.... | |
 | 1843 - 524 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 934 Seiten
...credit to what is contained in the foregoing pages, will wonder at the havoc made, by the jail fevei-. From my own observations in 1773, 1774, and 1775,...by all the public executions in the kingdom.* This frequent eftect of confinement in prison seems generally understood, and shows how full of emphatical... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1846 - 484 Seiten
..."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... | |
 | John Field - 1848 - 192 Seiten
...by the gaol fever. From my own observations, in 1773 and 1774, I 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 shews how full of emphatical... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1850 - 566 Seiten
...From my own 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... | |
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From my own 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. 
