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<head>Letter 3</head> | |||
<note>XVI Improved Prisons</note> | |||
<note>2. In respect of<lb/> | |||
economy the<lb/> | |||
work not paying<lb/> | |||
for half the Space<lb/> | |||
under the best<lb/> | |||
Management.</note> | |||
<p>In respect of economy, £1000 a year <add>perpetual</add> rent, and for that<lb/> | |||
£1000 a year £500 neat profit—(neat in other respects)<lb/> | |||
produced. <add>That</add> Loss £50 per cent of the rent: and to produce<lb/> | |||
this loss—that is to reduce the loss to this <gap/>, such<lb/> | |||
exertions and such talents as it would be in vain <add>presumptuous</add> to count<lb/> | |||
upon in any future instance. Had equal talents <del>and</del> <add>with</add> equal<lb/> | |||
exertions been employ'd upon a larger scale, instead of speaking,<lb/> | |||
the national debt I am inclined to think would not have <add>weighed</add> <del>been</del><lb/> | |||
quite so heavy as <del>the</del> it does. Such <del>as</del> <add>has been</add> the effect of improved<lb/> | |||
prisons, under the Blackburn architecture.</p> | |||
<note>10<lb/> | |||
Thus was the result<lb/> | |||
of the Blackburn<lb/> | |||
architecture.</note> | |||
<p>I know the man, my Lord. <gap/> in the business, fame<lb/> | |||
<del><gap/></del> sent me to him for instruction: I was in treaty with him<lb/> | |||
for Ireland. <hi rend="underline">Sir,</hi> (says he) | |||
<hi rend="underline">if I work this thing for your<lb/> | |||
ordinary per centage will not pay me: let there be one building<lb/> | |||
upon this principle, this will be an end of mine.</hi><lb/> | |||
The exact <del>import</del> <add>substance</add> my Lord: almost the very words. The man<lb/> | |||
was an artful man: but thus sent out from him unawares.<lb/> | |||
He was <add>an economist: but not that sort of economist whose art consists in</add> <del>a great professor of economy: but his economy: but his economy consisted in</del><lb/> | |||
doing useless things at a <gap/> rate.</p> | |||
<p> | |||
<del>Neither by talent, nor by exertions can the nature of<lb/> | |||
things be changed.</del> | |||
<lb/> | |||
<add>Neither</add></p> | |||
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Letter 3 XVI Improved Prisons
2. In respect of
economy the
work not paying
for half the Space
under the best
Management.
In respect of economy, £1000 a year perpetual rent, and for that
£1000 a year £500 neat profit—(neat in other respects)
produced. That Loss £50 per cent of the rent: and to produce
this loss—that is to reduce the loss to this , such
exertions and such talents as it would be in vain presumptuous to count
upon in any future instance. Had equal talents and with equal
exertions been employ'd upon a larger scale, instead of speaking,
the national debt I am inclined to think would not have weighed been
quite so heavy as the it does. Such as has been the effect of improved
prisons, under the Blackburn architecture.
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Thus was the result
of the Blackburn
architecture.
I know the man, my Lord. in the business, fame
sent me to him for instruction: I was in treaty with him
for Ireland. Sir, (says he)
if I work this thing for your
ordinary per centage will not pay me: let there be one building
upon this principle, this will be an end of mine.
The exact import substance my Lord: almost the very words. The man
was an artful man: but thus sent out from him unawares.
He was an economist: but not that sort of economist whose art consists in a great professor of economy: but his economy: but his economy consisted in
doing useless things at a rate.
Neither by talent, nor by exertions can the nature of
things be changed.
Neither
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