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To Parnell
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upon such terms, I shall be rather surprized.
Should the plan fall to the ground altogether,
its fate and the effect of the part I have borne
in it will be whimsical enough. You had determined determine
upon the Penitentiary System: you give
notice accordingly in the H. of Commons: a plan
new and unexpected aid to it [+]
[+] divine
drops down to upon you into your lap
from the clouds: you have the system to double
the effect for half the money: and it is this very assistance
frightens you and kicks the system out
of doors. If you want have a good and cheap
prison then, have a door and had one: From
don't let me be your hindrance. [+]
[+] Let them have
studies to work
in, dining-rooms
to eat it, boudoirs
to paint in, and
bedchambers to sleep
in, Chapels at a
distance to pray &
chatter in - happiest
the front> with
Pillars and the
sides with
&
Gods.. Build it
upon this plan
of Stone, 900 foot
from end to end:
D Buckingham
who understands economy will send you a
model.
Give your Jailer
ten or twenty thousand capital to set to stick him with:
give him a large salary and as interest benefit
from the work, and set over him a set Superintendents and Committees
without interest over him to plague him and prevent him
him his upside down, his management <add>plans topsy-turvy</add> and every
thing will be as it should be.
Some gentleman I think they said you told me was saying they
the prisoners would get out of or a this prison of mine. If so If to
you think so prevent this put them at the one end of a street with
the Jailer at the other, give the 16 hours as
our Penitentiary Act does to work at it unobserved undisturbed and
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jeremy bentham |
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arthur young |
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letter 741, vol. 4 |
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