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27 Oct 1802
Supplication
EconomyReformation
Governors Sermons
The mighty dwelleth
and looketh by;
yet the sparks continue
to fly upwards:
That before the sermon men should offend, provokes calls forth
no little, surprize: but that after the sermon and such a sermon
men should human nature continue their there is what to think of
appears there to wrap gentlemen have wrapped up in astonishment.+ The
word is gone forth: yet neither do the lame walk,
nor does the runagate slacken in his course: Canute bid
the waves be still, and the tide kept flowing in as before:
but that the waves should really be thus stayed, was
no part of the expectation of the magnanimous King: the
relative imputation to the waves was the rebuke an impressive one to the
surrounding crowd of flatterers. To expect to see those
commotions of which a troubled sea is the
by a word—to expect to see impossible effects produced
by impotent causes—expectations such as like these were
the natural produce of instructions drawn from certain springs of from the such
heights springs as flow at the bottom of Walmer Castle.
the hand of the
assassin and the
incendiary stopped
by a strong of phrases.
In a Panopticon Penitentiary Inspection House
the dependence I must confess was of a somewhat
different kind: it rested altogether on physical barrs,
not at all on verbal ones. For preventing drunkenness intoxication
I had no better means than a building in which the drinking it and the reciving it
would be alike impossible for which would
in which it would be impossible either to receive a drop of forbidden liquor
with or so much as be seen drinker drink it if arrived
without being seen—and seen by those who themselves were would
be seen to see it, and whose situations would depend be forfeited by upon
their their suffering it not suffering it: for preventing sloth I had nothing
better or worse than a room in which for the pleasures of doing nothing
a man might starve as long as it was agreeable to him
with
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