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10
Letter 3d
instruction, is a school the less a school because
the body boys are not always in the school room?
Separation however, even though carried to
the length of solitude, is not of itself sufficient
for reformation. To reformation, occupation is
necessary: occupation, profitable or at least innocent,
to fill up the mind with useful ideas or at
least innocent ones, and by that repletion to
exclude mischievous ones. —
Inclosed space, for whatever purpose, is not
to be had without expence. To pay for that
expence if work be proposed to be done, it is
necessary not only that work shall be done, but
done in such quantity and such quality, as to
equal the expence. It is in this way that the
interests of reformation and those of economy
are intimately blended and connected. Work of
some sort or other, profitable or not profitable in
point of economy, is necessary for reformation. But
the less the expence of reformation, the less it will
be grudged.
Grudged ? — says a voice somewh somewhere —
whether your Lordship's or whose else I am unable
to distinguishs out of all habits as I am with
great men — Grudged! however (says the voice and
in a tone of displeasure —) and what of that then? then? — as
if where reformation is at stake, expence would be
grudged by any body: as if in such a case the
grudgery of the money, if it were grudged, ought to
stop the issue of it! For corruption, no my Lord: for
Identifier: | JB/116/607/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
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116 |
panopticon versus new south wales |
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607 |
letter 3d |
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001 |
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copy/fair copy sheet |
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recto |
d10 |
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john herbert koe |
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letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7 |
38140 |
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