Newgate
Newgate
Definition
New·gate (no̵̅o̅′gāt′, nyo̵̅o̅′-)
noun
former prison in London: torn down in 1902
Newgate Quotes
We shall never forget the mingled feelings of awe and respect with which we used to gaze on the exterior of Newgate in our schoolboy days[the doors] looking as if they were made for the express purpose of letting people in, and never letting them out again.
What ishistory, in fact, but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man?
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