Old Lamps for New Ones, And Other Sketches And Essays Hitherto Uncollected
The book Old Lamps for New Ones, And Other Sketches And Essays Hitherto Uncollected was written by author Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Here you can read free online of Old Lamps for New Ones, And Other Sketches And Essays Hitherto Uncollected book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Old Lamps for New Ones, And Other Sketches And Essays Hitherto Uncollected a good or bad book?
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If it be an example to criminals, and to criminals only, why are not the pris- oners in Newgate brought out to see the show before the debtors' door? Why, while they are made parties to the condemned sermon, are they rigidly excluded from the im- proving postscript of the gallows? Because an execution is well known to be an utterly useless, barbarous, and bru- talizing sight, and because the sympathy of all beholders, who have any sympathy at all, is certain to be always with the criminal, and ...never with the law. I learn from the newspaper accounts of every execution CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. 135 how Mr. So-and-so, and Mr. Somebody else, and Mr. So- forth shook hands with the culprit, but I never find them shaking hands with the hangman. All kinds of attention and consideration are lavished on the one ; but the other is universally avoided, like a pestilence. I want to know why so much sympathy is expended on the man who kills another in the vehemence of his own bad passions, and why the man who kills him in the name of the law is shunned and fled from?
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