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<head>22</head><!-- aligned to the right-hand margin, and in pencil --> | |||
<head>Letter 3<hi rend='superscript'>d</hi></head><!-- centred and in pencil --> | |||
<p><!-- indented -->Persons who (one might almost venture to affirm) | |||
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never saw the inside of a prison in their <del>whole</del> | |||
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lives — persons by much too high to have ever | |||
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bestowed upon any such low object any thing | |||
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that call be called a t<hi rend='underline'>hough</hi>t — persons who are | |||
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as much at home in "improved" prisons as | |||
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they are in "improved" colonies — it is by such | |||
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lovers of improvements , and by the lovers of | |||
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such improvements, that the penitentiary system | |||
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in its most improved form has been consigned | |||
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to "r<hi rend='underline'>elinquishment</hi>", and the authority that prescribed | |||
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it to contempt . — | |||
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<p><!-- indented -->It was not my original <add>intention,</add>, my Lord, to have | |||
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Letter 3d
Persons who (one might almost venture to affirm)
never saw the inside of a prison in their whole
lives — persons by much too high to have ever
bestowed upon any such low object any thing
that call be called a thought — persons who are
as much at home in "improved" prisons as
they are in "improved" colonies — it is by such
lovers of improvements , and by the lovers of
such improvements, that the penitentiary system
in its most improved form has been consigned
to "relinquishment", and the authority that prescribed
it to contempt . —
It was not my original intention,, my Lord, to have
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116 |
panopticon versus new south wales |
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619 |
letter 3d |
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001 |
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copy/fair copy sheet |
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recto |
d22 |
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john herbert koe |
cw 1799 |
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c. abbit lees |
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1799 |
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letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7 |
38152 |
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