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B.2.C.5.6
S. cts so the motives by which men are
prompted to the Commision of Crimes-These
are the expectation of the pleasurs which are
the fruit of them - By far the greater number of the
offences which bring men to a prison are the
offspring of Rapacity - Crimes issuing from
any other motive are so few as scarcely to
demand in this view any separate notice
The talk of offenders will be of the poorer sort
among the produce of a little plunder will
go in the purchase of pleasure much beyond
that which the ordinary produce of their
labour would enable them to purchase; such
as more food, more delicate liquors in greater plenty
and more delicious, finer clothes, and
more expensive pleasures:-
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