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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... "
Annual Register of World Events - Page 430
1802
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The Idler: In Two Volumes. ...

1761 - 308 pages
...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 every corruption which poverty and wickednefs can generate between them ; with all the fhamelefs and proffigate enormities that can be...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and ..., Volume 2

History - 1762 - 578 pages
...extravagancies of erroneous piety, than to multiply and enforce temptations to wickednefs. The mifery of goals is not half their evil, they are filled with every corruption which poverty and wickeilnefs can generate between them; with all the fliamelefs ard profligate enormities that can be...
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The Idler, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - English essays - 1767 - 316 pages
...with every corruption which poverty and wickednefs can generate between them ; with all the fhamelefs and profligate enormities that can be produced by...of ignominy, the rage of want, and the malignity of defpair. In a prifon the awe of the- publick eye is loft, and the power of the law is fpent ; there...
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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

Bibliography - 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 - Crime - 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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The Idler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 430 pages
...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 generate between them ; with all the fhamelefs and profligate enormities that can be...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Idler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 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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Harrison's British Classicks: The Idler. Fitz Osbornes Letters. Shenstones ...

1787 - 528 pages
...extravagances of 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
...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 generate between them; with all the fhamelefs and profligate enormities that can be...
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