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... sentence an unhappy wretch , already entangled in it , to an increasing and ever increasing load of it , - -or even to be indifferent whether this be the result of our infliction or not , -appears to me a stretch of selfish policy ...
... sentence an unhappy wretch , already entangled in it , to an increasing and ever increasing load of it , - -or even to be indifferent whether this be the result of our infliction or not , -appears to me a stretch of selfish policy ...
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... sentence . Until these elapse , the labor imposed is strictly coerced , or Slave labor ; and , although accompanied with a fixed minimum amount of physical maintenance and support , sufficient to place above want , it is yet subject to ...
... sentence . Until these elapse , the labor imposed is strictly coerced , or Slave labor ; and , although accompanied with a fixed minimum amount of physical maintenance and support , sufficient to place above want , it is yet subject to ...
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... sentence respectively expire , with , or without , having obtained tickets - of - leave , and how- ever abandoned in character ( if only they escape an extension of time under a Colonial sentence ) , the pri- soners become entirely free ...
... sentence respectively expire , with , or without , having obtained tickets - of - leave , and how- ever abandoned in character ( if only they escape an extension of time under a Colonial sentence ) , the pri- soners become entirely free ...
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... sentence ; yet are they expected to be improved for the future by the treatment which they thus receive . They are first made slaves to their of pardon , which from the very nature of its machinery must be admi- nistered as nearly ...
... sentence ; yet are they expected to be improved for the future by the treatment which they thus receive . They are first made slaves to their of pardon , which from the very nature of its machinery must be admi- nistered as nearly ...
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... sentence in parties , say of six , who should choose each other , and agree to run the chances of their pro- bation together . Thus , after a man has completed the period during which , according to his original sentence , he must ...
... sentence in parties , say of six , who should choose each other , and agree to run the chances of their pro- bation together . Thus , after a man has completed the period during which , according to his original sentence , he must ...
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Aborigines advantage appears arrangements assigned servants Australian authority better BREVIATES Cambridge character Christian Church circumstances civilization classes conduct consequently considered contrary Convict Management crime criminals degradation desire Diemen's Land direct punishment domestic drunkenness effect England English evil existing system favorable feeling GEORGE WASHINGTON WALKER give Government habits HISTORY Hobart Town human improved individual indulgence inflicted injury instruction interest King's College School labor laws less London masters means ment merely moral influence natives nature object obtained Octavo offence officers operation opinion parties Penal Colonies person persuaded physical police political population Prayer present system principle prison discipline probation proposed racter reason reform regard respect result scarcely Secondary punishment sentence settlers shew shewn sidered slavery slaves social society South Wales spirit success temptation tendency Thirty-Nine Articles ticket-of-leave tion Transportation University of Cambridge Van Diemen's Land Volume whole WILLIAM WHEWELL
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