 I hold this slow and daily tampering with the mysteries of the brain, to be immeasurably worse than any torture of the body: and because its ghastly signs and tokens are not so palpable to the eye and sense of touch as scars upon the flesh; because its...  Pictures from Italy: American Notes - Page 281by Charles Dickens - 1880 - 437 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Prison Discipline Society (Boston, Mass.) - Prisons - 1841 - 628 pages
...tho surf.tcc, and it extorts few cries that haman eare can hear; therefore I the more denounce iti as a secret punishment which slumbering humanity is...power of saying 'Yes' or 'No,' I would allow it to be tried in certain cises, where the terms of imprisonment were short ; but now I solemnly declare,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1842 - 646 pages
...and tokens are not so palpable to the eye and sense of touch as scars upon the flesh ; because its wounds are not upon the surface , and it extorts few...power of saying "Yes" or "No," I would allow it to be tried in certain cases, where the terms of imprisonment were short; but now, I solemnly declare,... | |
 | John Field - Jails - 1848 - 192 pages
...officially connected1 with the Institution who attended him, denounce the confinement there pursued ' as a secret punishment which slumbering humanity is not roused up to stay ?' And did he then ' solemnly declare, that, with no rewards or honours, could he walk a happy man... | |
 | Charles Dickens - Biography & Autobiography - 1850 - 206 pages
...eye and sense of touch as scars upon the flesh; because its wounds are not upon the surface, 68 69 and it extorts few cries that human ears can hear;...power of saying "Yes" or " No," I would allow it to be tried in certain cases, where the terms of imprisonment were short ; but now, I solemnly declare,... | |
 | William Parker Foulke - Prison discipline - 1861 - 118 pages
...and tokens are not so palpable to the eye and sense of touch as scars upon the flesh ; because its wounds are not upon the surface, and it extorts few...power of saying ' Yes' or ' No,' I would allow it to be tried 97 in certain cases, where the terms of imprisonment were short; but now, I solemnly declare,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1866 - 472 pages
...and tokens are not so palpable to the eye and sense of touch as scars upon the flesh ; because its wounds are not upon the surface, and it extorts few...power of saying " Yes " or " No," I would allow it to be tried in certain cases, where the terms of imprisonment were short ; but now, I solemnly declare,... | |
 | George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman - Medicine - 1878 - 544 pages
...and tokens are not palpable to the eye and sense of touch, as scars upon the flesh — because its wounds are not upon the surface, and it extorts few...which slumbering humanity is not roused up to stay. But now I solemnly declare that, with no rewards or honors could I walk a happy man beneath the open... | |
 | Charles Dickens - Canada - 1868 - 130 pages
...and tokens are not so palpahle to the eye and sense of touch as scars upon the fiesh,— -hecause its wounds are not upon the surface, and it extorts few...the more denounce it as a secret punishment which slumherIng humanity is not roused up to stay. I hesitated once, dehating with myself, whether, if I... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1868 - 658 pages
...and tokens are not so palpable to the eye and sense of touch as scars upon the flesh ; because its wounds are not upon the surface, and it extorts few cries that human ears can hear ; therefore 1 the more denounce it, as a secret punishment which slumbering humanity is not roused up to stay.... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1877 - 398 pages
...and tokens are not so palpable to the eye and sense of touch as scars upon the flesh ; because its wounds are not upon the surface, and it. extorts few cries that Tiuman ears can hear ; therefore I the more denounce it, as a secret punishment which slumbering humanity... | |
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