 | Prison Discipline Society (Boston, Mass.) - 1841 - 628 sidor
...rigid, strict, and liopsless solitary confinement I believe it, in its effects, to be cruel and wrong. u In its intention, I am well convinced that it is kind,...is that they are doing. I believe that very few men arc capable of estimating the immense amount of torture and agony whicli this dreadful punishment,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1842 - 452 sidor
...rigid, strict, and hopeless solitary confinement. 1 believe it, in its effects, to be cruel and wrong. In its intention, I am well convinced that it is kind, humane, and meant for reformation; butl am persuaded that those who devised this system of Prison Discipline, and those benevolent gentlemen... | |
 | Joseph Adshead - 1845 - 348 sidor
...hopeless solitary confinement. I believe it, in " its effects, to be cruel and wrong. In its intentions, I am well " convinced that it is kind, humane, and...discipline, and those benevolent gentlemen who carry it into execu" tion, do not know what they are doing." We uphold, with as much tenacity as Mr. Dickens can... | |
 | John Field - 1848 - 192 sidor
...hopeless solitary confinement. I believe it, in its effects, to be cruel and wrong. In its intentions, 1 am well convinced that it is kind, humane, and meant...gentlemen who carry it into execution, do not know what they are doing.' * * * Mr. Dickens certainly gives credit to ' those benevolent gentlemen ' who have... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1850 - 206 sidor
...rigid, strict, and hopeless solitary confinement. I believe it, in its effects, to be cruel and wrong. In its intention, I am well convinced that it is kind,...reformation ; but I am persuaded that those who devised this sytem of Prison Discipline, and those benevolent gentlemen who carry it into execution, do not know... | |
 | William Parker Foulke - 1861 - 118 sidor
...rigid, strict, and hopeless solitary confinement. I believe it, in its effects, to be cruel and wrong. " In its intention, I am well convinced that it is kind,...is that they are doing. I believe that very few men arc capable of estimating the immense amount of torture and agony which this dreadful punishment, prolonged... | |
 | Arthur George F. Griffiths - 1875 - 336 sidor
...He thus gives his opinion of the method in vogue at the Eastern Penitentiary when he visited it in 1842 : — "In its intention I am well convinced that...who carry it into execution, do not know what it is they are doing. I believe very few men are capable of estimating the immense amount of torture and... | |
 | Vagabond - 1877 - 238 sidor
...of fiction. Charles Dickens, in his American Notes, writes thus of the Philadelphia prison : — " In its intention I am well convinced that it is kind,...who carry it into execution, do not know what it is they are doing. I believe that very few men are capable of estimating the immense amount of torture... | |
 | Vagabond - 1877 - 238 sidor
...of fiction. Charles Dickens, in his American Notes, writes thus of the Philadelphia prison : — " In its intention I am well convinced that it is kind,...who carry it into execution, do not know what it is they are doing. I believe that very few men are capable of estimating the immense amount of torture... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1884 - 990 sidor
...rigid, strict, and hopeless solitary confinement. I believe it, in its effects, to be cruel and wrong. In its intention, I am well convinced that it is kind,...Discipline, and those benevolent gentlemen who carry it tnto execution, do not know what it is that they are doing. I believe that very few men are capable... | |
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In its intention, I am well convinced that it is kind, humane, and meant for reformation ; but I am persuaded that those who devised this system of Prison Discipline, and those benevolent gentlemen who carry it into execution, do not know what it is they... 
