Author: Joseph FoulkePublisher:
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Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 47
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Friends' Almanac for the Year 1846
Author: Joseph FoulkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 47
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Friends' Pocket Almanac, for the Year 1846 ...
Author: Joseph FoulkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boarding schools
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Friends' Almanac for the Year 1846
Author: Joseph FoulkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boarding schools
Languages : en
Pages : 47
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Almanac for the Year of Our Lord 1846
Author: The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge, for the Year 1846
Author: AnonymousPublisher: Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN: 9781230049977
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 edition. Excerpt: ...has not been realized here. On the contrary, solitude has been found to produce restless irritability, and a peevishness of disposition, impatient of the unnatural restraint imposed on the reluctant body and mind, difficult to be dealt with; while, in the performance of social labor, in silence, the men have been better subject to control, and have required less frequent exertions of authority than before. " In the year preceding the discontinuance of solitary imprisonment, there was an average loss from sickness, of twenty-five per cent. upon the labor of the convicts. During the past year, under the system of social labor, the loss, from the same cause, has been about six per cent. The necessity and amount of punishments for disobedience and violations of rules, have diminished in about the same proportion. It should be added, however, that corporal punishment has been introduced under the new system, and no doubt has operated to deter from offences, although it has been administered to two prisoners only, in extreme cases. " Another supposed advantage of the solitary plan, that of affording secresy and seclusion to the prisoner, so that he may go forth into the world again without being recognized, and perhaps threatened or tempted by his associates, is, in practice, wholly illusory. For no man passes into prison without an open trial, and the knowledge of friends and enemies; and no man can expect to pass out again without being remembered. A hope of concealing the imprisonment, as the basis of reformation and a new character, is almost sure to be defeated."--State Prison Rep. for 1844. VI. CONNECTICUT. Government For the Year ending on the 1st Wednesday in May, 1846. Roger S. Baldwin, of New Haven, Governor, Reuben...
Friends' Almanac for the Year 1838
Author: Joseph FoulkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 47
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Friends' Almanac for the Year 1838
Author: Joseph FoulkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 47
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Author: Samuel Nelson DickinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 167
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Author: Joseph Foulke (Jr.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 47
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Author: Joseph Foulke (jr.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 47
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