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Evils of Imprisonmt: and loss of Condition domestic
EVILS OF IMPRISONMENT.
I. Of SIMPLE IMPRISONMENT
1. – Privation of the liberty of beholding an
unlimited variety of rural objects, and other
objects that afford amusement to the eye
and imagination. Loss of simple or
general Pleasures.
2. – Of taking pleasurable exercises that
require an unconfined space; such as riding
on horseback, or in a carriage, hunting,
shooting; playing at cricket, Golf, Bowls c.
Loss of Simp. Organ. Pleasures.
3. – Of exercising any function of Magistracy
of which the exercise is limited to a certain
place, or any public trust: for instance in
this country that of Justice of the Peace,
Commissioner of the Land Tax, Comm: of Turnpikes,
Vestryman, Corporator, Parliamentary
Elector &c. Loss of Pleasures
of Power – Pleas. of the Imagination
4. – Of partaking of public diversions
attached to a particular place, such as,
Races, Plays, Concerts, Balls, &c. Loss of Simp. Organ. Pleasures & Pleasures
of the Imagn.
5.
– Of putting one's self in the way of
chance opportunities of taking pleasure.
viz: any Pleasure whatever.
6.
6. – Of taking journies which may occasionally
become requisite for the purpose
of preserving health: for instance for the
benefit of sea-bathing, or drinking
waters: of an air more pure than common:
or of particular medical advice.
Choice of Simple organical Pains.
7.
7. – or abridgement of the liberty of
carrying on business for a livelyhood.
Loss of Pleasures of possession and expectation.
8.
8. – Of putting one's self in the way of
accidental opportunities of advancing one's
fortune; such as buying bargains, procuring
customers, placing out money, gaining
friends by good offices, making advantageous
matches for one's self, one's
children, &c. Loss of the chance of
Pleasures of Possession and Expectation.
9.
9. – Or abridgment of the liberty of
enjoying agreeable Society & conversation;
such as that of relations, friends and
acquaintance. Loss of Pleasures of
Recollection, Imagination, & Sympathy.
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EVILS OF IMPRISONMENT.
II. Of AFFLICTIVE IMPRISONMENT.
1.
1. – Confinement to disagreeable
diet. Simple organical Pains.
2.
2. – Want of comfortable accommodations
for repose. Simp. org.
Pain.
3.
3. – Want of Light. Loss of
Simp. org. Pleasures; Pleas.
of the Imagination &c.
4.
4. – Exclusion from the Society
of the other sex. Simp.
organ. Pain.
5.
5. – Total Exclusion from the Society
of relations, friends and
acquaintance. See Simple
Imprist: No 9.
6.
6. – Total Seclusion from Society.
7.
7. – Seclusion from the
implements of writing or
other mute discourse.
8.
8. – Seclusion from all implements
of amusement:
books, implements of
mechanical exercises &c.
9.
9. – Inconvenience from the
obligation of wearing shackles
of various kinds.
10.
10. – Obligation of mixing
with the promiscuous assemblage
of one's fellow prisoners.
Qu. if No. 9 & 10 be not
referable to the next head?
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EVILS OF IMPRISONMENT.
III. Abuses incident to IMPRISONMENT
1.
1. – Pains of hunger and
thirst – habitual debility
– Death. Simp. organ.
Pains.
2.
2. – Sensation of excessive Cold,
in various degrees of intensity.
Falling off of the extremities
by the stoppage of circulation.
Death. Simp. organ. Pains.
3.
3. – Sensation of excessive heat –
Habitual debility – Death.
Simp. orgl. Pains.
4.
4. – Sensation of damp & the wet –
Fevers and other diseases –
Death. Simp. organ.
Pains.
5.
5. – Accumulation of noisome
smells from the body; from
the excrements and remains
of the food and other putrifiable
matters – Falling
off of the extremities by
gangrene; the Gaol-fever
and other contagious diseases.
– Death. Simp. organ.
Pains
6.
6. – Pain or uneasiness from
the bites of vermin – want
of sleep – habitual debility,
Inflammations – Fevers –
Death. Simp. organ.
Pains.
7.
7. –– Seclusion from medical
assistance – exacerbation of
natural diseases – Death.
Simp. organ. Pains.
8.
8. – Sensation of shame from
the suffering violences to modesty
abd delicacy. Pains of the
moral sanction.
9.
9. – Obligation of hearing immoral
and irreligious discourses.
Pains of moral and religious
antipathy.
10.
10. – Seclusion from the practice
of religious ceremonies.
Pains of the religious
Sanction.
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EVILS of DISCOLOURMENT
DISFIGUREMENT
Disablement and
Mutilation
1.
1. – Loss of Beauty and
thence of a chance of the
pleasures and advantages
that depend upon man's
person and appearance.
Loss of the Pleasures
of the Moral Sanction.
2.
2. – Ignominy – of loss of
reputation – the loss of
the good will dependent
on good reputation
and of the benefit
derivable from it.
Pains of the Moral Sanction.
EVILS of Disablement and Mutilation
1.
1. – Loss of the pleasures
proper to each sense.
Pleasures
2.
2. – Pain of awkwardness.
Simp. organ. Pains
3.
3. – Total or partial loss
of livelyhood. Pain
of privation or disappointment.
4.
4. – Total or partial loss
of the pleasures of
conversation. viz
See I.9
5.
5. – Loss of the pleasures
of attending such an or such
exercises. Loss of
Simp. org. Pleasures.
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