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Page 70 - And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number. Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed : lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.
Page 50 - ... popular applause, conducted to an early and ignominious doom. Not far off sleep two chiefs of the great house of Howard — Thomas, fourth Duke of Norfolk, and Philip, eleventh Earl of Arundel. Here and there, among the thick graves of unquiet and aspiring statesmen, lie more delicate sufferers ; Margaret of Salisbury, the last of the proud name of Plantagenet, and those two fair Queens who perished by the jealous rage of Henry. Such was the dust with which the dust of Monmouth mingled.* Yet...
Page 213 - Our results nowhere confirm the evidence, nor justify the allegations, of criminal anthropologists. They challenge their evidence at almost every point. In fact, both with regard to measurements and the presence of physical anomalies in criminals, our statistics present a startling conformity with similar statistics of the law-abiding classes. The final conclusion we are bound to accept until further evidence, in the train of long series of statistics, may compel us to reject or to modify an apparent...
Page 52 - Guillotin, Médecin Politique, Imagine un beau matin Que pendre est inhumain Et peu patriotique; Aussitôt II lui faut Un supplice Qui, sans corde ni poteau, Supprime du bourreau L'office. C'est en vain que l'on publie Que c'est pure jalousie D'un suppôt Du tripot D'Hippocrate, Qui d'occire impunément.
Page 200 - ... instances, as transfer from, one class to another, with different privileges in each ; but that the supreme agency for gaining the desired co-operation on his part is power lodged in the administration of the prison to lengthen or shorten the duration of his term of incarceration. The other great thought, here insisted upon as nowhere else in the world, is that the whole process of reformation is...
Page 98 - To caves bestrew'd with many a mouldering bone. And cells, whose echoes only learn to groan ; Where no kind bars a whispering friend disclose, No sunbeam enters, and no zephyr blows, He treads, inemulous of fame or wealth, Profuse of toil, and prodigal of health...
Page 49 - Death is there associated, not, as in Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's, with genius and virtue , with public veneration and with imperishable renown -, not, as in our humblest churches and churchyards, with everything that is most endearing in social and domestic charities; but with whatever is darkest in human nature and in human destiny, with the savage triumph of implacable enemies, with the inconstancy, the ingratitude, the cowardice of friends, with all the miseries of fallen greatness and of...
Page 49 - ... darkest in human nature and in human destiny, — with the savage triumph of implacable enemies,— with the inconstancy, the ingratitude, the cowardice of friends, — with all the miseries of fallen greatness and of blighted fame. Thither have been carried, through successive ages, by the rude hands of jailers, without one mourner following, the bleeding relics of men who had been the captains of armies, the leaders of parties, the oracles of senates, and the ornaments of courts.
Page 200 - He was its creator, and that institution is that criminals can be reformed ; that reformation is the right of the convict and the duty of the State; that every prisoner must be individualized and given the special treatment adapted to develop him in the point in which he is weak — physical, intellectual, or moral culture, in combination, but in varying proportions, according to the diagnosis of each case; that time must be given for the reformatory process to take effect...
Page 65 - Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table.