2003 examples of convicts in sentences

He believes that morality will be able to hold its own distinct, not only from all belief in revelation, in a personal God, and in a spiritual soul, but in spite of a philosophy which by tracing the origin of moral judgments to mere physical laws of hereditary transmission of experienced utilities, robs them of all authority other than prudential, and convicts them of being illusory so far as they seem to be of higher than human origin.

It has been shown that the greater number of convicts are mentally and morally subnormal.

Talking of the religious discipline proper for unhappy convicts, he said, 'Sir, one of our regular clergy will probably not impress their minds sufficiently: they should be attended by a Methodist preacher[1017]; or a Popish priest.'

A loud clamour against this sentence was made by some Members of both Houses of Parliament; but both Houses approved of it by a great majority; and he was conveyed to the settlement for convicts in New South Wales.

The warder who evidently had more nerve than I gave him credit for, must have fired at me from where he was, right between the heads of the other convicts.

As I ran, twisting in and out between the trees, and keeping my head as low as possible, I could hear behind me a hoarse uproar from my fellow-convicts, who by this time were evidently getting out of hand.

He is going to sell his estate250 acres of the best land in Devonand go and live among the convicts.

There are those constituting what might be called the desperate classthe men who work in the lumber and turpentine camps, the ex-convicts, the bar-room loafers are all in this class.

His aristocratic gorge rose at the presumption of this son of an overseer and ex-driver of convicts.

He had had no opportunity, at least no tenable excuse, to kill or maim a negro since the termination of his contract with the state for convicts, and this occasion had awakened a dormant appetite for these diversions.

Thirteen unhappy convicts were burned at the stake, eighteen were hanged, and seventy-one transported.

7,000 Native Children ................. 5,000 Emancipated Convicts............. 8,000 Convicts in Servitude .......... 20,000 40,000 *

7,000 Native Children ................. 5,000 Emancipated Convicts............. 8,000 Convicts in Servitude .......... 20,000 40,000 *

Italy has not declared war on Germany yet, but the fury of the German Press is unbounded, and for the moment Germany's overworked Professors of Hate have focused their energies on the new enemy, and its army of "vagabonds, convicts, ruffians and mandolin-players," conveniently forgetting that the spirit of Garibaldi is still an animating force, and that the King inherits the determination of his grandfather and namesake.

SIR,There is not the slightest foundation for the ridiculous canard as to the inhabitants of this picturesque and abnormally fashionable town being "in a state of complete panic, owing to the fact that all the convicts recently confined at Shortland have broken out, and are indulging in frightful excesses in the neighbourhood.

" The convicts have not broken out; but an epidemic of gratuitous mendacity has done so, it appears.

METHODISTS, bitterness, their, v. 392; cannot explain their excellence, v. 392; Cock Lane Ghost, adopt the, i. 407, n. 1; convicts, effects on, iv.

ROMAN CATHOLICISM and Roman Catholics, attacked by Wesley, v. 35, n. 3; clergy accused of lazy devotion, v. 170, n. 1; Communion in one kind, ii. 105; iv. 289; convicts should be attended by a Popish priest, iv.

THAMES, Budgell drowns himself in it, ii. 229; v. 54; convicts working on it, iii. 268, n. 4; Johnson and Boswell row to Greenwich, i. 458; to Blackfriars, ii. 432; returns on it from Rochester, iv.

Whosoever rises up to condemn such practices and opinions thereby convicts himself of the private spirit which is the root of heresy.

Bureaucracy convicts itself; the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy of 1910.

In 1774 he bought four men convicts, four indented servants, and a man and his wife for four years and sent them and some carpenters out to help Simpson build the mill and otherwise improve the lands.

Having been a prey for so long to incessant terrors, and shut up within the walls of their towns like convicts in a prison, they rejoiced like people restored to freedom after a long and bitter slavery.

The evidence that convicts John Blackmore will convict her.

In the same year one Southern State has the chivalry to provide that no women should be worked as convicts on the road; one is not aware but for this that it ever happened.

2003 examples of  convicts  in sentences