This attitude of inconsistency and compromise must seem to a modern unsatisfactory and strained, and he turns with relief to the courageous outspokenness of the great poem of Lucretius on the Nature of Things, of which the main object was to persuade the Romans to renounce for good all the mass of superstition, in which he included the religion of the State, by which their minds were kept in a prison of darkness, terror, and ignorance.

She was accordingly taken to Paris, and received as a pensionnaire in the Convent des Anglaises, which had been, in the Revolution, her grandmother's prison.

He was now called to account for every farthing with the most malignant accuracy, and a sum of money, lost by ill-management, not being satisfactorily accounted for, his new tormentor threatened him with prison and trial.

In Louisiana an uprising on the plantation of Julien Poydras in Pointe Coupée Parish in 1796 brought the execution of a dozen or two negroes and sentences to prison of several whites convicted as their accomplices; and as late as 1811 an outbreak in St. Charles and St. James Parishes was traced in part to San Domingo slaves.

In addition four white men indicted for complicity, comprising a German peddler, a Scotchman, a Spaniard and a Charlestonian, were tried by a regular court having jurisdiction over whites and sentenced to prison terms ranging from three to twelve months.

Frequently in Louisiana, however, and more seldom elsewhere, convicted slaves were given prison sentences.

*** A female defendant at a London police court last week was given the choice of prison or marriage, and preferred to get married.

He would not know that Fleet Street was named after the Fleet Prison.

Or, if you will, you may call Fleet Street cosy, and the Fleet Prison cosy.

But in France the question of whether Zola shall go to the Panthéon when he is dead is quite as practicable as the question whether he should go to prison when he was alive.

I do not blame them at all for clamouring for the schoolboy's detention in prison; I dare say a little detention in prison would do him no harm.

I do not blame them at all for clamouring for the schoolboy's detention in prison; I dare say a little detention in prison would do him no harm.

Let the accused editor have the right of proving this if he can; if he does, let the subordinate be tried and go to prison.

The whole moral meaning would vanish if we supposed that Oliver Twist had got by accident into an exceptionally bad workhouse, or that Mr. Dorrit was in the only debtors' prison that was not well managed.

Suppose a man could be born in a modern prison.

It is impossible, of course, because nothing human can happen in a modern prison, though it could sometimes in an ancient dungeon.

A modern prison is always inhuman, even when it is not inhumane.

But suppose a man were born in a modern prison, and grew accustomed to the deadly silence and the disgusting indifference; and suppose he were then suddenly turned loose upon the life and laughter of Fleet Street.

The corpse upon the bier may bear the stamp of spiritual character impressed on it in life; but the spirit, with its struggle and its passion, has escaped as from a prison-house, and flown else-whither.

It appeared that at the public-house which he frequented he had overheard some Irishmen of desperate character plotting to blow up Clerkenwell prison.

Some officers ordered the ribbon to be taken down, and sent the man to prison.

Including an appendix, From pulpit to prison, by Henry Smith Leiper.

By a singular concurrence of circumstances, the woman with whom he became acquainted in Liverpool, and who is said at that time to have borne a decent character, was lodged in the same prison with himself.

"BELLEVUE PRISON, March 20, 1831.

When I saw you in Liverpool, and a peaceful calm wafted across both our breasts, and justice no claim upon us, little did I think to meet you in the gloomy walls of a strong prison, and the arm of justice stretched out with the sword of law, awaiting the appointed period to execute the dreadful sentence.