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Imprisonment exad
B2.Ch.5

I. to the motives by which men are prompted
to the commission of offences of will be necessaryThese the expectation of the
pleasures which are the fruit of them. By far the greater number of the to speak of those that are most common.
those which are the offences which bring men to Prisonoffspring offspring of rapacity: Crimes issuing from any other source motive
are so few as scarcely to demand in this view
any separate notice. The bulk of offenders will
be of the poorer sort: among these the produce
of a little plunder will go in the purchase of
pleasure much beyond that which the ordinary
produce of their lawful labour would enable them
to purchase fo such as food more delicate liquor
in greater plenty & more delicious ticket finer cloaths,
Horses Dogs & expensive pleasures. These pleasures admission to the theatres and to
naturally of to the from here . These pleasures for an
most successful an inexhaustible subject of conversation ding
bench for those who have experienced them of
boast among the Prisoners. They thnaturally forms the
subject of conversation among the Prisoners and is
the inexhaustible them of of subjectsubject of boasting
for boast on the part of those who by their skill
or good fortune have acquired the means of enjoying
them. Around them is formed an audience
of respectful listeners who hear with with
envy and admiration the boldness ofof the feats performed by the
the relator. The recitals inflame the imagination,
which to an audience so composed ha possess
all the merits and all the fascin fascinations
of a novel intrigues risks courage perseverance
renown and reward: the more numerous the
association of the more raised the adventures exploits
& what subject more obvious or more interesting
to them than the adv recounting over their adventures
a pa especially those that have been the means
of bringing them together?


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Identifier: | JB/141/072/003
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 141.

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141

Main Headings

rationale of punishment

Folio number

072

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Image

003

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Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f18 / f13

Penner

richard smith

Watermarks

[[watermarks::[britannia with shield emblem]]]

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Paper Producer

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Notes public

ID Number

48289

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