I could not bear the windows drawn up, and was therefore often obliged to travel on horseback. The leaves of my memorandum-book were often so tainted, that I could not use it till after spreading it an hour or two before the fire. And even my antidote,... Dublin Hospital Gazette - Page 3101856Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson - 1902 - 262 pages
...to travel commonly on horseback. " The leaves of my memorandum book," he also tells us, " were often so tainted, that I could not use it till after spreading...in a few prisons, become intolerably disagreeable. I did not wonder that in those journeys many gaolers made excuses; and did not go with me into the... | |
| James Edmund Jones - 1924 - 248 pages
...therefore obliged to on horseback. The leaves of book were often so tainted that I could not use it until after spreading it an hour or two before the fire;...in a few prisons, become intolerably disagreeable. " WHITEWASHING THE GAOL, Although many Grand Juries recommended that whitewashing the gaol might do... | |
| Sir Arthur Newsholme - 1927 - 270 pages
...in some of the prisons visited by him were so vile that "the leaves of my memorandum book were often so tainted that I could not use it till after spreading it an hour or two before the fire." .... "From my own observations in 1773, 1774 and 1775 I was fully convinced that many more prisoners... | |
| American Correctional Association - 1899 - 534 pages
...and was, therefore, often obliged to travel on horseback. The leaves of my memorandum book were often so tainted that I could not use it till after spreading...in a few prisons, become intolerably disagreeable." These were some of the old abuses that we have partially outgrown. In some of the states these reforms... | |
| Fireside pictorial annual - 1883 - 808 pages
...was therefore obliged commonly to travel on horseback. The leaves of my memorandum-book wore often so tainted that I could not use it till after spreading...in a few prisons, become intolerably disagreeable." While we have outlived such abominations as these we have also come to the end of more than one kind... | |
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