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Life in Sing Sing State Prison, as Seen in a Twelve Years' Chaplaincy John Luckey No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 351 - Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him : let him know, that he which converteth a sinner from the error of his way, shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
Page 8 - Institution, nor receive from them any letter, paper, tobacco, or other thing whatever. They are not to leave the place where they are put to work, nor the work they are set to do, without the special permission or orders of the proper officer; they are not to suffer their attention to be taken from their work to- look at visitors, nor arc they to gaze or look at them when unemployed.
Page 240 - Lord, if indeed I am thine, If thou art my sun and my song, Say, why do I languish and pine, And why are my winters so long...
Page 164 - ... consisting in a morbid perversion of the natural feelings, affections, inclinations, temper, habits, and moral dispositions, without any notable lesion of the intellect or knowing and reasoning faculties, and particularly without any maniacal hallucination.
Page 165 - ... unjust suspicions, indulge strong propensities, affect singularity in dress, gait, and phraseology; are proud, conceited and ostentatious ; easily excited and with difficulty appeased ; dead to sensibility, delicacy, and refinement; obstinately riveted to the most absurd opinions ; prone to controversy, and yet incapable of reasoning ; always the hero of their own tale, using hyperbolic, high-flown language to express the most simple ideas, accompanied by unnatural gesticulation, inordinate action,...
Page 8 - They must approach their Keepers in the most respectful manner, and be brief in their communications. They are not to speak to them on ordinary topics, nor address them except when it becomes necessary in relation to their work or their wants.
Page 4 - On the same day a temporary barrack was erected to receive the convicts at night ; they were then set at work, building the prison, making of each one a carpenter, mason, &c. and having no other means to keep them in obedience but the rigid enforcement of discipline by Capt.
Page 17 - The measure was followed by a gratifying improvement in the conduct of the prisoners. Many wearisome hours of solitary confinement are beguiled, resolutions of repentance and reformation are formed, and the minds of the unhappy convicts, accustomed to the contemplation of virtue...
Page 8 - They are not to exchange a word with each other, under any pretence, not to communicate any intelligence to each other in writing; they are not to exchange looks, winks, laugh with each other, nor make use of any signs, except such as are necessary to convey their wants to the waiters.
Page 142 - O'er all those wide-extended plains Shines one eternal day; There God the Son forever reigns, And scatters night away. 4 No chilling winds, or poisonous breath, Can reach that healthful shore; Sickness and sorrow, pain and death, Are felt and feared no more.