 I beheld scenes of calamity, which I grew daily more and more anxious to alleviate. In order therefore to gain a more perfect knowledge of the particulars and extent of it, by various and accurate observation, I visited most of the county gaols in England.  John Howard - Strana 40podľa Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson - 1902 - Počet stránok 211Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | 1777 - Počet stránok 756
...of humanity, to enter into a more general examination, of thefe fcene* of calamity : and, in order to gain a more perfect knowledge of the particulars and extent of it, by various and accurate obfervation, he made a tour AN eminent phyfician in this metropo- through England, folely with the... | |
 | 1812 - Počet stránok 428
...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 - Počet stránok 938
...I, therefore, rode into several neighbouring counties in search of a precedent; but I soon learned that the same injustice was practised in them ; and,...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... | |
 | 1820 - Počet stránok 562
...enough of the misery existing in our prisons, to induce him to form the benevolent resolution to obtain a more, perfect knowledge of the particulars and extent of it, by enlarging the sphere of his observations to most of the county gaols in England. Ten days had accordingly... | |
 | 1821 - Počet stránok 488
...enough of the misery existing in our prisons, to induce him to form the benevolent resolution to obtain a more perfect knowledge of the particulars and extent of it, by enlarging the sphere of his observations to most of the county gaols in England. Ten days had accordingly... | |
 | James Baldwin Brown - 1823 - Počet stránok 702
...expense. I therefore rode into several neighbouring counties in search of a precedent ; but I soon learned that the same injustice was practised in them ; and...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 to... | |
 | James Baldwin Brown - 1823 - Počet stránok 700
...enough of the misery existing in our prisons, to induce him to form the benevolent resolution to obtain a more perfect knowledge of the particulars and extent of it, by enlarging the sphere of his observations to most of the county jails in England ; ten days had scarcely... | |
 | 1824 - Počet stránok 542
...I, therefore, rode into several neighbouring counties in search of a precedent ; but I soon learned that the same injustice was practised in them : and...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 - Počet stránok 864
...expense. I therefore rude into several neighbouring counties in search of a precedent ; 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." p. 123. Mr. Howard,... | |
 | James Baldwin Brown - 1831 - Počet stránok 388
...expense. 1 therefore rode into several neighbouring counties in search of a precedent : but I soon learned that the same injustice was practised in them ; and...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... | |
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