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9<lb/><head>Letter XV. Prospect of saving from this Plan.</head><p>was there committed, or at any rate some other good Judges should have<lb/>"judged necessary." <!-- The next seven lines of this paragraph have been stricken. --> Officers and Governors, <hi rend="underline">eo</hi> <hi rend="underline">nomine</hi>, <add>my Contractor</add> <del>he</del> would have none:<lb/>and my superfluous Clerk or over-looker, who might be found lurking<lb/>in his establishment, he would have much less tenderness for, than<lb/>your Gardener has for the sow-thistles in your Garden. The greatest<lb/>part of <hi rend="underline">his</hi> science comes to him in maxims from his grandmother:<lb/>and amongst the foremost of those maxims is that which stigmatizes,<lb/>as an unfrugal practice, the keeping of more cats than<lb/>will catch mice.</p><p>If, under all these circumstances, the Penitentiary-houses<lb/>should have been somewhat of a bugbear, it will be the less<lb/>to be wondered at, when one considers the <del>mg</del> magnitude of the scale<lb/>upon which this complicated experiment was going to be made. I<lb/>mentioned in round numbers nine hundred, as the number of<lb/>convicts that was going to be provided for: but 888 was the<lb/>exact number, mentioned in the Bill. Three eights "thus arranged</p> | |||
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Letter XV. Prospect of saving from this Plan.
was there committed, or at any rate some other good Judges should have
"judged necessary." Officers and Governors, eo nomine, my Contractor he would have none:
and my superfluous Clerk or over-looker, who might be found lurking
in his establishment, he would have much less tenderness for, than
your Gardener has for the sow-thistles in your Garden. The greatest
part of his science comes to him in maxims from his grandmother:
and amongst the foremost of those maxims is that which stigmatizes,
as an unfrugal practice, the keeping of more cats than
will catch mice.
If, under all these circumstances, the Penitentiary-houses
should have been somewhat of a bugbear, it will be the less
to be wondered at, when one considers the mg magnitude of the scale
upon which this complicated experiment was going to be made. I
mentioned in round numbers nine hundred, as the number of
convicts that was going to be provided for: but 888 was the
exact number, mentioned in the Bill. Three eights "thus arranged
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