 ... deprived of the light of day, as well as of fresh air; breathing nothing but a noisome atmosphere of the morbid steams exhaling from their own excrements and diseased bodies, devoured with vermin hatched in the filth that surrounded them, and destitute...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine1858Full view - About this book
 | Tobias Smollett - 1774 - 312 pages
...fufpended in rows, fo huddled one upon another, that not more than fourteen inches fpace was allotted for each with his bed and bedding ; and deprived of the light of the day, as well as of frefh air ; breathing nothing but a noifome atmofphere of the morbid fleams exhaling from their own... | |
 | Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...suspended in rows, so huddled one upon another, that not more than fourteen inches space was allotted for each with his bed and bedding; and deprived of the light of day,. as wel| as of fresh air ; breathing nothing but a noisome atmosphere of the morbid steams exhaling... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English fiction - 1796 - 590 pages
...fufpended in rows, fo huddled one upon another, that not more than fourteen inches fpace was allotted for each with his bed and bedding ; and deprived of the light of the day, as well as of frefh air ; breathing nothing but a noifome atmofphere of the morbid fleams exhaling from their own... | |
 | Tobias Smollett, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 748 pages
...suspended in rows, so huddled one upon another, that not more than fourteen inches space was allotted for each with his bed and bedding ; and deprived of the...own excrements and diseased bodies, devoured with vertnine hatched -in the filth that surrounded them, and destitute of every convenience necessary for... | |
 | England - 1858 - 796 pages
...distempered wretches, suspended in rows, so huddled one on another that not more than fourteen inched space was allowed to each, with his bed and bedding,...deprived of the light of the day as well as of fresh air, breathiog nothing hut a noisome atmosphere of the morbid steams exhaling from their own excrements... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1870 - 666 pages
...suspended in rows, so huddled one upon another, that not more than fourteen inches space was allotted for each with his bed and bedding ; and deprived of the light of the day, as well as of fresn air ; breathing nothing but a noisome atmosphere of the morbid steams exhaling from their own... | |
 | Marine engineering - 1875 - 670 pages
...suspended in rows, so hnddled one upon another that not more than fourteen inches space was allotted for each, with his bed and bedding, and deprived of the light of day, as well as of fresh air, breathing nothing but a noisome atmosphere of the morbid steam from their... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1887 - 492 pages
...suspended in rows, so huddled one upon another, that not more than fourteen inches space was allotted for each with his bed and bedding ; and deprived of the...fresh air ; breathing nothing but a noisome atmosphere . . . devoured with vermin.' &c. The doctor, when visiting the sick, ' thrust his wig in his pocket,... | |
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1887 - 490 pages
...suspended in rows, so huddled one upon another, that not more than fourteen inches space was allotted for each with his bed and bedding ; and deprived of the...fresh air ; breathing nothing but a noisome atmosphere . . . devoured with vermin.' &c. The docMr. Charles Fox. him in some other state, I think you may increase... | |
 | Charles Creighton - Epidemics - 1894 - 908 pages
...suspended in rows, so huddled °"f upon another that not more than fourteen inches space was allowed for each with his bed and bedding; and deprived of the light of the day, as well as of fresh *i' ; breathing nothing but a noisome atmosphere of the morbid steams exhaling from Aeir own excrements... | |
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