Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
PAGE The Agricultural Interest (_Morning Chronicle_, March 9, 529 1844) Threatening Letter to Thomas Hood from an Ancient Gentleman 532 (_Hood’s Magazine and Comic Miscellany_, May, 1844) Crime and Education (_Daily News_, February 4, 1846) 538 Capital Punishment (I–III; _Dail...
PAGE The Agricultural Interest (_Morning Chronicle_, March 9, 529 1844) Threatening Letter to Thomas Hood from an Ancient Gentleman 532 (_Hood’s Magazine and Comic Miscellany_,...
2. Chapter 2Before I describe a visit of my own to a Ragged School, and urge the readers of this letter for God’s sake to visit one themselves, and think of it (which is my main object), le...
3. Chapter 3Oxford had his imitators. Let it never be forgotten in the consideration of this part of the subject, how they were stopped. So long as attempts invested them with the distincti...
4. Chapter 4I mentioned that I would devote a portion of this letter to a few prominent illustrations of each head of objection to the punishment of Death. Those on record are so very numer...
5. Chapter 5It has been objected to this extraordinary work that it is too elaborately finished; too complete in its several parts. And Heaven knows, if it be judged in this respect by any...
6. Chapter 6Those readers of Miss Procter’s poems who should suppose from their tone that her mind was of a gloomy or despondent cast, would be curiously mistaken. She was exceedingly humor...