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<head>Letter VII. Uses - Penitentiary - houses - Safe custody</head> | <head>Letter VII. Uses - Penitentiary - houses - Safe custody</head> | ||
exempt from interruption. But who would think of beginning a<lb/> | <p>exempt from interruption. But who would think of beginning a<lb/> | ||
work of hours and days, without any tolerable prospect of making<lb/> | work of hours and days, without any tolerable prospect of making<lb/> | ||
so much as the first motion towards it unobserved? Such attempts<lb/> | so much as the first motion towards it unobserved? Such attempts<lb/> | ||
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even to the slightest punishment, or even to the mortification<lb/> | even to the slightest punishment, or even to the mortification<lb/> | ||
of the disappointment, without so much as a tolerable chance of escaping<lb/> | of the disappointment, without so much as a tolerable chance of escaping<lb/> | ||
instantaneous detection? who would think<del>ing</del> of bringing in <unclear>before</unclear><lb/>the Keeper's face, so much as a | instantaneous detection? who would think<del>ing</del> of bringing in <unclear>before</unclear><lb/>the Keeper's face, so much as a <del>small file</del> <add>spring saw</add>, or a phial of <hi rend="underline"><unclear>aqua fortis</unclear></hi><lb/>to a person not prepared to receive any such thing, nor in a condition<lb/>to make use of it? (a) Upon all plans hitherto pursued, the thickest<lb/>walls have been been <del><gap/></del> <add>found</add> occasionally unavailing: upon this<lb/>plan, the thinnest would be sufficient: a circumstance which must<lb/>operate, in a striking degree, towards a diminution of <add>the</add> expence.</p> | ||
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exempt from interruption. But who would think of beginning a
work of hours and days, without any tolerable prospect of making
so much as the first motion towards it unobserved? Such attempts
have been seldom made without the assistance of implements introduced
by accomplices from without. But who would expose themselves
even to the slightest punishment, or even to the mortification
of the disappointment, without so much as a tolerable chance of escaping
instantaneous detection? who would thinking of bringing in before
the Keeper's face, so much as a small file spring saw, or a phial of aqua fortis
to a person not prepared to receive any such thing, nor in a condition
to make use of it? (a) Upon all plans hitherto pursued, the thickest
walls have been been found occasionally unavailing: upon this
plan, the thinnest would be sufficient: a circumstance which must
operate, in a striking degree, towards a diminution of the expence.
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