 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1838 - 604 psl.
...raiment, and expect to meet many of their old comrades. But hear the emphatic statement of the Report— "It is proved by the most irrefragable testimony,...blanks in this strange lottery, influenced perhaps by the desire common to human nature, of having companions and partakers, whether of misery or of happiness,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1838 - 440 psl.
...they could have ever hoped from honest industry at home, and those, again, who are suffering severely, the drawers of prizes and the drawers of blanks in this strange lottery (and that both are to be found is established by irrefragable evidence), as they seem to be both injured... | |
 | Sir William Molesworth - 1840 - 146 psl.
...they could have ever hoped from honest industry at home, and those, again, who are suffering severely, the drawers of prizes and the drawers of blanks in this strange lottery (and that both are to be found is established by irrefragable evidence), as they seem to be both injured... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1850 - 250 psl.
...assistance. Numerous instances, likewise, were mentioned of convicts, who, degraded and demoralized by their punishment, have, from feelings of anger...lower orders for the punishment of transportation. " Transportation, though chiefly dreaded as exile, undoubtedly is much more than exile ; it is slavery... | |
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... doing mischief than of giving pain. Our present system, on the contrary, causes much more pain than terror, and incomparably more mischief than pain. Those who are thriving in the colony beyond what they could have ever hoped from honest industry... 