 | Caroline E. Rush - 1852 - 350 pàgines
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 | Margaret R. Hunt - 2023 - 370 pàgines
...West-India Almanack for the Year 1719 has tipped into it the following handwritten poem, dated 4 Dec. 1719: A Prison is a House of Care; A Place where none can Thrive; A Touchstone there to try a Friend; A Grave for men Alive. He that the worth of Friends would know, Must for Instruction... | |
 | Donald Campbell - 2003 - 298 pàgines
...Traditions of Edinburgh (1868), which also quotes the lines that appeared on the door of the prison chapel: 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 for jades and... | |
 | Geoffrey Stell - 2000 - 808 pàgines
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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. 
