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'' | <p>The late Empress of Germany <del>formed <gap/></del> <add>towards the close of her</add><lb/> | ||
<add>reign</add> took up a resolution to break the neck of this<lb/> | |||
<add>entirely.</add> forbidden intercourse. The vigour of <del><gap/></del> <add>absolute</add> authority,<lb/> | |||
unfilter'd by legal formalities, & <del><gap/></del> consolidated<lb/> | |||
<del><gap/></del> under a single hand enabled her <add>afforded her</add> to prosecute it with<lb/> | |||
every possible advantage. <add>The <unclear>inctures</unclear> upon which she took it up did <unclear>evidct</unclear> to her benevolence.</add> The degree of spirit and consistency with which she persevered <add>prosecuted the design</add> <add><gap/></add> [did evidnt<lb/> | |||
to her good intentions] evinced <del>an</del> her firmness <del>of her</del><lb/> | |||
<del>inlude</del> as it would have done her wisdom, if<lb/> | |||
manifested in a better cause. What follow'd?<lb/> | |||
corruption spread itself in private and in<lb/> | |||
public life: her marriage-bed was polluted <lb/> | |||
on the one hand: the seal of justice <add>judgment seal</add> on the<lb/> | |||
other. Adultery <del>that the</del> <add>took the place of fornication</add> insinuated itself from<lb/> | |||
house to house:<add>acquired what was lost by fornication</add> magistrates sinking under the<lb/> | |||
weight of temptation that pressed upon them on<lb/> | |||
all sides, made a trade of their connivance:<lb/> | |||
fraud, prevarication, oppression and extortion<lb/> | |||
spread themselves over the country: and prostitution,<lb/> | |||
though driven into straights and<lb/> | |||
corners still maintained its hold.<lb/></p> | |||
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The late Empress of Germany formed towards the close of her
reign took up a resolution to break the neck of this
entirely. forbidden intercourse. The vigour of absolute authority,
unfilter'd by legal formalities, & consolidated
under a single hand enabled her afforded her to prosecute it with
every possible advantage. The inctures upon which she took it up did evidct to her benevolence. The degree of spirit and consistency with which she persevered prosecuted the design [did evidnt
to her good intentions] evinced an her firmness of her
inlude as it would have done her wisdom, if
manifested in a better cause. What follow'd?
corruption spread itself in private and in
public life: her marriage-bed was polluted
on the one hand: the seal of justice judgment seal on the
other. Adultery that the took the place of fornication insinuated itself from
house to house:acquired what was lost by fornication magistrates sinking under the
weight of temptation that pressed upon them on
all sides, made a trade of their connivance:
fraud, prevarication, oppression and extortion
spread themselves over the country: and prostitution,
though driven into straights and
corners still maintained its hold.
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Identifier: | JB/087/076/004"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87. |
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087 |
indirect legislation |
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076 |
indirect legislation |
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f33 / f34 / f35 / f36 |
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]] |
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