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<hi rend='underline'>su</hi>berb and roomy Jail , spite of every relief that the attention | |||
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of a humane keeper can bestow , have been the fruit | |||
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of all this crowding and all this misery , it has not | |||
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fallen in my way to learn . On board the Hulks the sort | |||
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of attention which his Grace and his Noble Successor | |||
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have bestowed upon the subject — the attention of crowding | |||
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those receptacles likewise with Convicts designed for | |||
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the Penitentiary House by Parliament , has not been | |||
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without its fruit : but of this fruit , sweet , I suppose, | |||
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to the taste of those who cultivate it , bitter I should | |||
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<add>have</add> supposed to the taste of <del>any</del> <del>,</del> <add>every</add> man who has any sense | |||
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remaining has just reached me called for another station | |||
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under the resumed title of the <hi rend='underline'>Hulkes</hi> . - | |||
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<p><!-- indented -->Besides the abovementioned , | |||
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upon it thou ready-prepared smiles which Your Lordship
has treasured up in store for it to be dealt out to it
in regulated measure , so long as the projector lives ,
or till a warrant can be found for converting pi prudential
smiles into undissembled frowns : - a warrant
such as the precedents of office may without much
difficulty be made to furnish — "the length of time" (for
instance) "that has elapsed" , or the informality and
intemperance displayed by such as these.
In what degree , if in any, death may in that
suberb and roomy Jail , spite of every relief that the attention
of a humane keeper can bestow , have been the fruit
of all this crowding and all this misery , it has not
fallen in my way to learn . On board the Hulks the sort
of attention which his Grace and his Noble Successor
have bestowed upon the subject — the attention of crowding
those receptacles likewise with Convicts designed for
the Penitentiary House by Parliament , has not been
without its fruit : but of this fruit , sweet , I suppose,
to the taste of those who cultivate it , bitter I should
have supposed to the taste of any , every man who has any sense
remaining has just reached me called for another station
under the resumed title of the Hulkes . -
Besides the abovementioned ,
Identifier: | JB/116/628/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116. |
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116 |
panopticon versus new south wales |
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628 |
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002 |
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copy/fair copy sheet |
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john herbert koe |
1800 |
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1800 |
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letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7 |
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