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who would be far more resolutely bent against
making himself the instrument of such abuse
in any case, much less for and above all things his own any Possession
advantage of his my own: it is a subject I have
made my study of and considered it under all
its faces. But in the present instance is there
any real injury? is there so much as any real
damage? Is the damage, if any, such as can
be set in comparison with the public benefit? Does
it exist in any assignable shape? Is it susceptible of such
of indemnification? a nature as to have any claim to Indemnification then it will
have.
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So much with regard to security. Is the establishment likely
this is but all to be a source of any thing disgraceful or unpleasant to the neighbourhood. Your Lordship may
soon judge
Adopting in their fullest energy the ideas of
Howard with regard to the importance of publicity,
it is part of my plan, as your Lordship may
have observed, and indeed a main pillar of it, to render give
the establishment such a face as might attract
to it persons of all classes but parliamentary of the
superior ranks of life: [+] [+] whose promin
inspection as such
would be afford the most
powerful check to
any kind of mismanagement. on Sundays in particular
it would be my endeavour to make render it by means of the Chapel which is
enclosed in the centre of the building a sort of place of public
religious and moral entertainment, like suitable to the day, like that afforded by the Magdalen and the Asylum
suitable to the day. Your Lordship will
judge how far it will would be possible to accomplish carry
on any such plan if the establishment or any
thing belonging to it were to suffered to be in any the smallest particular
an object of apprehension or disgust. to the
neighbourhood.
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