 ... giving them the justice they have not hitherto received. In reference to our own peaceful state and immunity from crime of any magnitude, not merely in the country, but in our northern towns and villages, is it unjustifiable to notice what has been...  Transactions - Side 55af Inverness Gaelic Society - 1873Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Inverness Gaelic Society - 1873 - 154 sider
...villages, is it unjustifiable to notice what has been said a few days ago of the assizes of the south?—"A succession of murders and minor outrages has presented...working classes in the district of which Durham is the centre." Do I refer to these with satisfaction? No. I merely wish to remind dwellers in " Merrie England"... | |
 | Inverness Gaelic Society - 1873 - 152 sider
...villages, is it unjustifiable to notice what has been said a few days ago of the assizes of the south?—"A succession of murders and minor outrages has presented...working classes in the district of which Durham is the centre." Do I refer to these with satisfaction? No. I merely wish to remind dwellers in " Merrie England"... | |
 | Carolyn Conley - 2007 - 268 sider
...1872 the Times took the Winter Assize for the North of England as its subject. "A succession of murder and minor outrages has presented a picture of drunken...more fitly expected in some savage island in the far Pacifics where the natives had just tasted for the first time the terrible poison of drink." In describing... | |
 | Barry S Godfrey, Paul Lawrence, Chris A Williams - 2007 - 210 sider
...Assize Court in the North of England described 'a succession of murder and minor outrages' as presenting 'a picture of drunken brutality such as might be more fitly expected in some savage island in the far Pacifies' (Conley, 2005: 777). Given this habit of describing crime, particularly violent, disorderly... | |
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