This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...regard any existing evil z alarming characteristic of that particular time, truth is that the latter half of the eighteenth centurj remarkable for the almost total absence of one o strongest indications of lawlessness common to all e periods of which we have any records--that.of fo: entry. Nor is there any reason to ...
Read More
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...regard any existing evil z alarming characteristic of that particular time, truth is that the latter half of the eighteenth centurj remarkable for the almost total absence of one o strongest indications of lawlessness common to all e periods of which we have any records--that.of fo: entry. Nor is there any reason to believe that i marked by an unusual number of robberies and mui The fears expressed by Colquhoun at the end o: eighteenth century, like those expressed by Fieldi the middle, are simply proofs that the security of lift property was, generation by generation, acquiring a higher value in the eyes of a more civilised people. With the diminution of crimes on-land, there was at length a corresponding diminution of piracies atjea. The pirates now fell from their high estate to as piraCy extinlow a level as those 'gentlemen of the road' ftouglfihe ex.. ' tinction was who were the last representatives of the out-retarded by the privateer lawed gentlemen and knights of the middle systemages, and who took a purse with the aid of a gang, at night, instead of boldly marching with a little army to the attack of a manor-house by day. The famous seacaptains who had been the terror of all unarmed ships as late even as the beginning of the eighteenth century, were without successors at the end of it. They did not die out at once, and they even revived in the West Indies as late as 1763. After that time, piracy, considered as a profession, was almost extinct, though individual acts of piracy were committed only too frequently, when privateers' men or others found a convenient opportunity. But the adventurous spirits who would previously have been buccaneers, found occupation at first in the slave trade, and afterwards as mere smugglers. The chief cause wh...
Read Less
Add this copy of A History of Crime in England Illustrating the Changes to cart. $36.45, good condition, Sold by Anybook rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1876 by Smith, Elder.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Volume 2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Library sticker on front cover.8vo, red cloth binding, gilt lettering on spine, blue spackled page edges, pages clean, text clear Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1350grams, ISBN:
