Two Voyages to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land: With a Description of the Present Condition of that Interesting Colony: Including Facts and Observations Relative to the State and Management of Convicts of Both Sexes. Also Reflections on Seduction and Its General Consequences |
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... continue long sensible of the advantages they have derived from such a rational and judicious management , reflected in exemplary and generally correct conduct . There may be one or more still found disorderly ; but upon the whole the ...
... continue long sensible of the advantages they have derived from such a rational and judicious management , reflected in exemplary and generally correct conduct . There may be one or more still found disorderly ; but upon the whole the ...
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... . Few mothers could avoid shuddering to see such a female lay her infant baby across her lap , and pour the liquid poison , ( rum ) into the poor thing's vitals , continuing that diabolical nursing until the nerves of the unconscious 54.
... . Few mothers could avoid shuddering to see such a female lay her infant baby across her lap , and pour the liquid poison , ( rum ) into the poor thing's vitals , continuing that diabolical nursing until the nerves of the unconscious 54.
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... continuing that diabolical nursing until the nerves of the unconscious and miserable child are incapable of sensation , and it drops senseless from the hands of its inhuman parent . The counterpart to such a mon- strous picture , which ...
... continuing that diabolical nursing until the nerves of the unconscious and miserable child are incapable of sensation , and it drops senseless from the hands of its inhuman parent . The counterpart to such a mon- strous picture , which ...
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... continue to be felt by some of us for the remainder of our lives . There is nothing which tends to soften stubborn dispositions , and inspire the mind with such awe and reverence , as a constant attention to those duties which we owe to ...
... continue to be felt by some of us for the remainder of our lives . There is nothing which tends to soften stubborn dispositions , and inspire the mind with such awe and reverence , as a constant attention to those duties which we owe to ...
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... continue connected with their ge- neral and individual conduct throughout a long voyage of at least several months . The names of the indivi- duals are not mentioned , as matter comparatively of little interest . Crimes . Convicts ...
... continue connected with their ge- neral and individual conduct throughout a long voyage of at least several months . The names of the indivi- duals are not mentioned , as matter comparatively of little interest . Crimes . Convicts ...
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Page 140 - Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the Devil and his angels. For I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat ; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink ; I was a stranger, and ye took me not in ; naked, and ye clothed me not ; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Page 208 - There was a certain creditor, which had two debtors : the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty. And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me, therefore, which of them will love him most? Simon answered and said, I suppose that he to whom he forgave most.
Page 232 - When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Page 208 - Thou gavest Me no kiss : but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss My feet. My head with oil thou didst not anoint : but this woman hath anointed My feet with ointment.- Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven ; for she loved much : but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.
Page 208 - • in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, "and stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
Page 139 - So shall it be at the end of the world : the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, and shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Page 109 - Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God ? Be not deceived : neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Page 109 - Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Page 146 - The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down : for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.
Page 146 - And the multitude rose up together against them ; and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them. And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely : who, having received such a cha'rge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.