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Page 70
... months , three months in an iron gang for absconding ; and in a month after , on the 14th of August , fifty lashes more for absconding from that iron gang . The appetite for crime which this severity might punish , but could not deaden ...
... months , three months in an iron gang for absconding ; and in a month after , on the 14th of August , fifty lashes more for absconding from that iron gang . The appetite for crime which this severity might punish , but could not deaden ...
Page 71
... month , after thirty - six lashes , for absconding - receiving in the course of the previous twelve months no less than four hundred lashes . Where was the use of this application of the lash to a being who shewed so pertinaciously his ...
... month , after thirty - six lashes , for absconding - receiving in the course of the previous twelve months no less than four hundred lashes . Where was the use of this application of the lash to a being who shewed so pertinaciously his ...
Page 212
... months and in debt , when a bright day came suddenly in the shape of a £ 500 share . There were two parties , friends of equal strength , working in the same place for three months ; the one did not pay expenses , the other walked off ...
... months and in debt , when a bright day came suddenly in the shape of a £ 500 share . There were two parties , friends of equal strength , working in the same place for three months ; the one did not pay expenses , the other walked off ...
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