Calcutta Review, Volume 27University of Calcutta, 1856 |
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... question - as to the fifth we hold that it also is of very great importance , for if between village houses small spaces are We are quite aware that a suburb of London is now proposing to pay nearly a million of money to get rid of what ...
... question - as to the fifth we hold that it also is of very great importance , for if between village houses small spaces are We are quite aware that a suburb of London is now proposing to pay nearly a million of money to get rid of what ...
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... question in England , what is the best way in which to deal with our convicts . Not many years ago , sheep stealing was deemed a crime only to be expiated on the gallows ; now it is considered doubtful whether any advantage is gained by ...
... question in England , what is the best way in which to deal with our convicts . Not many years ago , sheep stealing was deemed a crime only to be expiated on the gallows ; now it is considered doubtful whether any advantage is gained by ...
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... question of three or 400 men , the deduction of two or three annas from each man's monthly earnings entails a considerable loss at the end of the year on the local authorities . Thus , three annas a man per month , less compensation ...
... question of three or 400 men , the deduction of two or three annas from each man's monthly earnings entails a considerable loss at the end of the year on the local authorities . Thus , three annas a man per month , less compensation ...
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... question arises , can any other system be devised by which that object may be better attained , and at an equal cost ? Looking at the old system even in its best ( a theoretical ) light , we find much wanting , but when we see how it is ...
... question arises , can any other system be devised by which that object may be better attained , and at an equal cost ? Looking at the old system even in its best ( a theoretical ) light , we find much wanting , but when we see how it is ...
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... question . One Jail might be governed on lax principles , another on the very strictest , so that the prisoners who were incarcerated in the former would laugh at their punishment , whilst those in the latter would dread a repetition of ...
... question . One Jail might be governed on lax principles , another on the very strictest , so that the prisoners who were incarcerated in the former would laugh at their punishment , whilst those in the latter would dread a repetition of ...
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