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Preface. | <head>Preface.</head> | ||
When the proposed Bill, of which the ensuing Sheets are <lb/>designed to give a view, first fell into my hands, I was em- <lb/>ployed in finishing a work of some bulk, in which I have <lb/>been treating the subject of <hi rend="underline">Punishment</hi> more at large. <lb/> In that work, I should have come in course to speak, of the <lb/> particular species of punishment which is the subject of <lb/> this Bill. In that work therefore several of the observations, <lb/> would have come in course to be introduced, which I have <lb/> here subjoined to several parts of the text I have been abst- <lb/> racting: and being there digested into a method, & forming<lb/> a part of a system, to which <add>I have been giving that degree of regularity which</add> it has been in my power to give —<lb/> it, would probably have come with <add>rather</add> more force & shewn to <lb/> rather more advantage, in company with the rest. On this acc- <lb/> ount, had I been at liberty with respect to time, I should <lb/> rather have wished to have published the whole together <lb/> first, before I had detached from it these scattered <lb/> fragments. The publication however of the proposed Bill <lb/> in question, with the intelligence that accompanied it, <lb/> effectually precluded any such option. To have delayed <lb/> the publication of this part of my principal work till <lb/> the Bill <lb/>had been brought in and passed, would have <lb/> been to delay it till that season had been over, in which, <lb/> if in any, such parts of it as relate to the present<lb/> subject promised to be most usefull. | <p>paragraph</p>When the proposed Bill, of which the ensuing Sheets are <lb/>designed to give a view, first fell into my hands, I was em- <lb/>ployed in finishing a work of some bulk, in which I have <lb/>been treating the subject of <hi rend="underline">Punishment</hi> more at large. <lb/> In that work, I should have come in course to speak, of the <lb/> particular species of punishment which is the subject of <lb/> this Bill. In that work therefore several of the observations, <lb/> would have come in course to be introduced, which I have <lb/> here subjoined to several parts of the text I have been abst- <lb/> racting: and being there digested into a method, & forming<lb/> a part of a system, to which <add>I have been giving that degree of regularity which</add> it has been in my power to give —<lb/> it, would probably have come with <add>rather</add> more force & shewn to <lb/> rather more advantage, in company with the rest. On this acc- <lb/> ount, had I been at liberty with respect to time, I should <lb/> rather have wished to have published the whole together <lb/> first, before I had detached from it these scattered <lb/> fragments. The publication however of the proposed Bill <lb/> in question, with the intelligence that accompanied it, <lb/> effectually precluded any such option. To have delayed <lb/> the publication of this part of my principal work till <lb/> the Bill <lb/>had been brought in and passed, would have <lb/> been to delay it till that season had been over, in which, <lb/> if in any, such parts of it as relate to the present<lb/> subject promised to be most usefull. | ||
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When I had read Mr. <hi rend="underline">Howard's</hi> book on Prisons, <lb/> one fruit of it was, a wish still more earnest than <lb/> what I had been led to entertain from theory. To see <lb/>some general plan for punishement adopted, in which — | <p>paragraph</p>When I had read Mr. <hi rend="underline">Howard's</hi> book on Prisons, <lb/> one fruit of it was, a wish still more earnest than <lb/> what I had been led to entertain from theory. To see <lb/>some general plan for punishement adopted, in which — | ||
119A
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Preface.
paragraph
When the proposed Bill, of which the ensuing Sheets are
designed to give a view, first fell into my hands, I was em-
ployed in finishing a work of some bulk, in which I have
been treating the subject of Punishment more at large.
In that work, I should have come in course to speak, of the
particular species of punishment which is the subject of
this Bill. In that work therefore several of the observations,
would have come in course to be introduced, which I have
here subjoined to several parts of the text I have been abst-
racting: and being there digested into a method, & forming
a part of a system, to which I have been giving that degree of regularity which it has been in my power to give —
it, would probably have come with rather more force & shewn to
rather more advantage, in company with the rest. On this acc-
ount, had I been at liberty with respect to time, I should
rather have wished to have published the whole together
first, before I had detached from it these scattered
fragments. The publication however of the proposed Bill
in question, with the intelligence that accompanied it,
effectually precluded any such option. To have delayed
the publication of this part of my principal work till
the Bill
had been brought in and passed, would have
been to delay it till that season had been over, in which,
if in any, such parts of it as relate to the present
subject promised to be most usefull.
paragraph
When I had read Mr. Howard's book on Prisons,
one fruit of it was, a wish still more earnest than
what I had been led to entertain from theory. To see
some general plan for punishement adopted, in which —
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