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15.
C
Of Culpable Insolvency
it thinks fit to give him ; as if conscious that the offer it makes assists <add>power it gives</add>
him were such as none but a bad man wocould accept. Instead of
taking measures for enabling the insolvent to provide his own
subsistence, and supplying the deficiency itself , it obliges the
Creditor to subsist him : The creditor as he has suffered so much , he is therefore
to suffer more . If But suppose the Creditor after the loss he has suffered
is not enough no longer able to maintain the man who caused
it to him , Is this the case ,? there is no remedy . The poor are not worth consideration considering or
redressing .
If frustrates its own purposes in favour of the Creditors In other respects this plan is still more mischievous to
Creditors than it is to Debtors . If a man has fifty Creditors
and cannot pay every one of them any every thing , he will not
pay any one of them any thing . Why should he ? If he pays
a farthing short he suffers for life ; if he does not pay so much as a
farthing he cannot suffer longer . Let him be where he will
it is better to be rich than pennyless . In a prison , or rather
what is called a prison in England , the advantages which
wealth has over poverty are greater than in any other place.
If a man has money he has a space to range in larger than many
a principality : if he has none he is thrust pell-mell with hundreds
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