The Romance of FraudChapman and Hall, Limited, 1914 - 280 pàgines |
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Pàgina 21
... live in was scarcely thought of . Most of the older prisons were familiar enough with fever ; and Newgate in this respect had a splendidly atrocious record . But at the date of which I speak ( and long after ) prisons were not always ...
... live in was scarcely thought of . Most of the older prisons were familiar enough with fever ; and Newgate in this respect had a splendidly atrocious record . But at the date of which I speak ( and long after ) prisons were not always ...
Pàgina 24
... same , suffer themselves to live far worse than swine , and , to speak the truth , the Augean stable would bear no comparison to it , for they are almost poisoned by their own filth , and their conversation 24 THE ROMANCE OF FRAUD.
... same , suffer themselves to live far worse than swine , and , to speak the truth , the Augean stable would bear no comparison to it , for they are almost poisoned by their own filth , and their conversation 24 THE ROMANCE OF FRAUD.
Pàgina 57
... punctilious nowadays in taking the finger - prints of a live criminal or suspected person . Dr. Gross shall show us that it may be quite necessary , to the ends of justice , to take the finger - prints of a corpse . The THE TRAIL 57.
... punctilious nowadays in taking the finger - prints of a live criminal or suspected person . Dr. Gross shall show us that it may be quite necessary , to the ends of justice , to take the finger - prints of a corpse . The THE TRAIL 57.
Pàgina 71
... lives of saints , and the Bible . What a curious work , by the way , would be the commentaries on the Bible of all the prisoners and captives whose sorrows it has comforted ! Fouquet , less a criminal than a victim of the jealous ...
... lives of saints , and the Bible . What a curious work , by the way , would be the commentaries on the Bible of all the prisoners and captives whose sorrows it has comforted ! Fouquet , less a criminal than a victim of the jealous ...
Pàgina 83
... live in very handsome style ; the prisoner without money lived wretchedly enough . On the one hand , we have the hyperbolic charge of Linguet , that , Except perhaps in hell , there are no tortures to approach those of the Bastille ...
... live in very handsome style ; the prisoner without money lived wretchedly enough . On the one hand , we have the hyperbolic charge of Linguet , that , Except perhaps in hell , there are no tortures to approach those of the Bastille ...
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Pàgina 123 - I can, at any rate, show that the experiments made with it at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century fully confirm the high encomium bestowed by Dioscorides upon his indicum.
Pàgina 42 - I believe that a sight so inconceivably awful as the wickedness and levity of the immense crowd collected at that execution could be imagined by no man, and could be presented in no heathen land under the sun. The horrors of the gibbet and of the crime which brought the wretched murderers to it faded in my mind before the atrocious bearing, looks, and language of the assembled spectators. When I came upon...
Pàgina 43 - ... imitations of Punch, brutal jokes, tumultuous demonstrations of indecent delight when swooning women were dragged out of the crowd by the police with their dresses disordered, gave a new zest to the general entertainment. When the sun rose brightly — as it did — it gilded thousands upon thousands of upturned faces, so inexpressibly odious in their brutal mirth or callousness, that a man had cause to feel ashamed of the shape he wore, and to shrink from himself, as fashioned in the image of...
Pàgina 42 - Susannah," and the like, were added to these. When the day dawned, thieves, low prostitutes, ruffians, and vagabonds of every kind, flocked on to the ground, with every variety of offensive and foul behaviour. Fightings, faintings, whistlings, imitations of Punch, brutal jokes, tumultuous demonstrations of indecent delight when swooning women were dragged out of the crowd by the police, with their dresses disordered, gave a new zest to the general entertainment. When the sun rose brightly — as...
Pàgina 81 - Millbank for thick shins and graft at the pump; Broadmoor for all laggs as go off their chump; Brixton for good toke and cocoa with fat; Dartmoor for bad grub but plenty of chat; Portsmouth a blooming bad place for hard work; Chatham on Sunday give four ounce of pork; Portland is worst of the lot for to joke in — For fetching a lagging there's no place like Woking.
Pàgina 32 - House at the Old Bailey. There were not, I believe, a hundred; but they did their work at leisure, in full security without sentinels. without trepidation, as men lawfully employed in full day.
Pàgina 216 - In no branch of the administration in Bengal," the Lieutenant-Governor said, " is improvement so imperatively required as in the police. There is no part of our system of which such universal and bitter complaint is made, and none in which for the relief of the people and the reputation of Government, is reform in anything like the same degree so urgently called for. The evil is essentially in the investigating staff. It is dishonest and it is tyrannical.
Pàgina 43 - When the two miserable creatures who attracted all this ghastly sight about them were turned quivering into the air, there was no more emotion, no more pity, no more thought that two immortal souls had gone to judgment, no more restraint in any of the previous obscenities, than if the name of Christ had never been heard in this world, and there were no belief among men but that they perished like the beasts.
Pàgina 32 - But I must not omit what struck me most. About ten or twelve of the mob getting to the top of the debtors' prison, whilst it was burning, to halloo, they appeared rolled in black smoke mixed with sudden bursts of fire — like Milton's infernals, who were as familiar with flame as with each other.
Pàgina 36 - She was the only really very great human being I have ever met, with whom it was impossible to be disappointed. She was, in the fullest sense of the word, a majestic woman. She was already advanced in years, and had a very tall and stately figure. But it was her countenance that was so striking. Her features were handsome in the sense of being well-proportioned, but they were not in the usual sense beautiful. Her eyes were not large, or brilliant, or transparent. They...