 | Frederick William Watkeys - 1908 - 472 pàgines
...end of the " Hall " o u O zT O ui H CQ .8 Z I hung a board on which were inscribed these lines: — " A prison is a house of care, A place where none can...thrive, A touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for men alive — " Sometimes a place for men of right, Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place for... | |
 | Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff - 1910 - 454 pàgines
...great noblemen like the Duke of Norfolk, and proud prelates, it also contained a knot of prisons — Sometimes a place of right, Sometimes a place of wrong,...place of rogues and thieves And honest men among. There was the Clink on Bankside, where the Winchester Bishops kept their heretics for the stake, its... | |
 | Thomas James Walker - 1913 - 426 pàgines
...- <MHHO ,-] o g ° HSM « < P p SH g O ' i o CHAPTER III ARRIVAL AND REGISTRATION OF THE PRISONERS A prison is a house of care, A place where none can...place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among. Inscription in Edinburgh Tolbooth. WE have now arrived at that stage in the story of the Norman Cross... | |
 | Wayland Fuller Dunaway - 1913 - 166 pàgines
...as he might have done; perhaps he was respecting the valor that he had lately witnessed. CHAPTER XI A prison is a house of care, A place where none can...thrive, A touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for men alive. —Inscription on the Old Prison of Edinburg. AFTER falling back from Hagerstown the army... | |
 | Agnes Castle, Egerton Castle - 1913 - 346 pàgines
...trems tht merest accident springs frtm the deepest well of destiny" (WISDOM OF AOES.) A HOUSE OF CARE A prison is a House of Care, A place where none can thrive, A Touchstone Trut to try a/riend, A grave for Man alive. Sometimes a place of right. Sonatinas a place of wrong.... | |
 | 1914 - 318 pàgines
...A prison is a. house of care, A place where none may thrive ; A touchstone true to try a friend, Л grave for one alive. Sometimes a place of right, Sometimes...place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among. ON SCOTSMEN AND THEIR COUNTRY. Indians assort that, wheresoe'er they roam. If slain, they reach again... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1916 - 50 pàgines
...of Edinborough, Scotland, I saw written upon the walls, anonymously, by some prisoner, these lines: A prison is a house of care, A place where none can thrive, A touchstone true to try a friend, A place for one alive; Sometimes a place of right, Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place for... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1923 - 676 pàgines
...against his horse's flanks, and rode forward at a hard trot to put his machines in motion. CHAPTER XLIV A prison is a house of care, A place where none can...place of rogues and thieves. And honest men among. Inseription on Edinburfk Talboolll. EARLY on the following morning the carriage which had brought Bertram... | |
 | a. h. millar, ll.d., - 1923 - 302 pàgines
...prisoner in the Old Tolbooth of Edinburgh : — A prison is a house of care, A place where none may thrive, A touchstone true to try a friend, A grave...of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves. With honest men among. Though the Town House Jail was so strongly built, it did not always prevent... | |
 | 1926 - 832 pàgines
...missionaries. Here is the inscription on the old prison at Edinburgh. It fits well the American prison. A prison is a house of care, A place where none can...thrive, A touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for men alive. Sometimes a place of right, Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and... | |
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A prison is a house of care. A place where none can thrive, A touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for one alive. Sometimes a place of right. Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among. 
