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39 Some committed their crimes deliberately to promote their own personal happiness , or material advancement . ... and then transferred to Madras , had committed the crime of coining in that latter place to ensure transportation .
39 Some committed their crimes deliberately to promote their own personal happiness , or material advancement . ... and then transferred to Madras , had committed the crime of coining in that latter place to ensure transportation .
Page 229
The grand cause of all this profligacy and crime was an overwhelming defect of religious principle , the polar star to guide a man in all his conduct . So lamentable a circumstance must seriously retard the establishing , in the colony ...
The grand cause of all this profligacy and crime was an overwhelming defect of religious principle , the polar star to guide a man in all his conduct . So lamentable a circumstance must seriously retard the establishing , in the colony ...
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When they calmly looked at the vast amount of crime amongst them , Burton had said , could they feel otherwise ... had dropped the significant words that anyone who tried to describe the condition of the colony as to crimes must not ...
When they calmly looked at the vast amount of crime amongst them , Burton had said , could they feel otherwise ... had dropped the significant words that anyone who tried to describe the condition of the colony as to crimes must not ...
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