Author: Camden Pelham (pseud.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
The Chronicles of Crime, Or The New Newgate Calendar
Author: Camden Pelham (pseud.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
The Chronicles of Crime
Author: Camden Pelham (pseud.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Chronicles of Crime; Or, The New Newgate Calendar
Author: Camden PelhamThe Chronicles of Crime
Author: Camden PelhamPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 2212
Book Description
This book comprises details, not only interesting to every person concerned for the welfare of society, but useful to the world in pointing out the consequences of guilt to be equally dreadful and inevitable. The author noticed that in most of the works published before its release, little attention was paid to the ultimate moral or beneficial effects to be produced by them upon the public mind; and that while every effort is made to afford amusement, no care was taken to produce those general impressions, so necessary to the maintenance of virtue and good order. The advantages of precept are everywhere admitted and extolled; but still more effectual are the lessons which are taught through the influence of example, whose results are but too frequently fatal. The representation of guilt with its painful and degrading consequences, has been universally considered to be the best means of warning youth against the danger of temptation; the benefits to be expected from example are too plainly exhibited by the infliction of punishment to need repetition; and the more generally the effects of crime are shown, and the more the horrors which precede detection and the deplorable fate of the guilty are made known, the greater is the probability that the atrocity of vice may be abated and the security of the public promoted.
The chronicles of crime
Author: Camden PelhamThe Chronicles of Crime, Or, The New Newgate Calendar
Author: Camden PelhamThe Chronicles of crime
Author: Camden PelhamThe Chronicles of Crime, Or, The New Newgate Calendar
Author: Camden PelhamThe Chronicles of Crime, Or the New Newgate Calendar, Vol. 1
Author: Camden PelhamPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781334100352
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Excerpt from The Chronicles of Crime, or the New Newgate Calendar, Vol. 1: Being a Series of Memoirs and Anecdotes of Notorious Characters Who Have Outraged the Laws of Great Britain From the Earliest Period to 1841 The comparison of the offences, and of the punishments of the last century, with those of more recent date. Will exhibit a marked distinction between the two periods, both as to the atrocity of the one, and the severity of the other. Those dreadful and frequent crimes, which would disgrace the more savage tribes, and which characterised the lives of the early objects of our criminal proceedings, are now no longer heard of; and those characters of blood. In which the pages of our Statute-book were formerly wrltten, have been wiped away by improved civilisation and the milder feelings of the people. It is but just to say that the provi sions of a wise Parliament have not been unattended with proper results. Humanity has been permitted to temper the stern demands of justice; and however atrocious, it must be admitted, some of the crimes may be which have been recently perpetrated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Camden Pelham