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" The misery of gaols is not half their evil, they are filled with every corruption which poverty and wickedness can generate between them; with all the shameless and profligate enormities that can be produced by the impudence of ignominy, the rage of want,... "
The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ... - Page 430
1762
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The Idler: In Two Volumes. ...

1761 - 308 pages
...and lefs criminal to permit ina&ien than compel it ; to comply with doubtful opinions of happinefs, than condemn to certain and apparent mifery ; to indulge...extravagancies of erroneous piety, than to multiply and enfojce temptations to wickcdnefs. THE mifery of gaols is not half their evil ; they are filled with...
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The Idler, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1767 - 316 pages
...and lefs criminal to permit ina&ion than compel it ; to comply with doubtful opinions of happinefs, than condemn to certain and apparent mifery ; to indulge...and enforce temptations to wickednefs. THE mifery of gaols is not half their evil ; they are filled with every corruption which poverty and wickednefs can...
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The Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge, Volume 5

1775 - 868 pages
...imprudent are commonly young, and the active and bufy are feldomold. " The mifery of goals," continues he, is not half their evil ; they are filled with every corruption which poverty and wickednefs can generate between them ; w ith all the fhamelefs and profligate enormi ties that can...
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London Review of English and Foreign Literature, Volume 2

1776 - 646 pages
...that are fhut up from the common comforts of human life." " The mifery of gaols, fays the fame writer, is not half their evil; they are filled with every corruption which poverty and wickednefs can generate between them; with all the fhamelefs and profligate enormities that can be...
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Distributive justice and mercy: shewing, that a temporary real solitary ...

Jonas Hanway - 1781 - 302 pages
...following extract : '* The mifery of " gaols" (meaning the Ample confinement and want of neceflaries) " is not half, " their evil : They are filled with every '* corruption which poverty and wtckednefs " can generate between them ; with all *' the fhamclcfs and profligate enormities " that...
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Harrison's British Classicks: The Idler. Fitz Osbornes Letters. Shenstones ...

1787 - 528 pages
...errontout piety, than to multiply and enforce '.rmptations to wirkednrfs. • The mifery of -gaols is not half their evil: they are filled with every corruption which poverty and wickednels an generate between them; wiih all the fhamelefs and profligate enormities that can J>e...
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The Idler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 432 pages
...doubtful opinions of happinefs, than condemn to certain and apparent m.fery ; to indulge the extravagances of erroneous piety, than to multiply and enforce temptations to wickednefs. The mifery of gaols is not half their evil : they are filled with every corruption which poverty and wickednefs can...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Idler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 442 pages
...extravagances of erroneous piety, than to multiply and enforce temptations to w:ckednefs. The mifery of gaols is not half their evil : they are filled' with every corruption which poverty and wickednefs can generate between them ; with all the fhamelefs and profligate enormities that can be...
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The Idler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 430 pages
...doubtful opinions of happinefs, than condemn to certain and apparent mifery ; to indulge the extravagances of erroneous piety, than to multiply and enforce temptations to wickednefs. The mifery of gaols is not half their evil : they are filled with every corruption which poverty and wickednefs can...
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The Scots Magazine, Volume 21

1759 - 760 pages
...compel it ; to comply with doubtful opinions of happinels, than condemn to certain and apparent mile17 ; to indulge the extravagancies of erroneous piety,...multiply and enforce temptations to wickednefs. The milery of gaols is not half their tfil ; they are filled with every corruption which poverty and wickednefs...
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