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9.
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Of Culpable Insolvency.
certainly be observed. The Nobleman and the Gentleman ; the
professional Man and the Trader; The Whole-sale Trader or
Merchant, and the Retailer; The Master-workman or Trader
and the Journeyman; The Male sex and the Female; The
married Man or Woman and the Single: He whose Income
is assured, and he from him whose income was is precarious; depending
for instance upon from uncertain employment or the bounty of Relations:
All or many of these conditions of life might be treated upon
a footing somewhat different.
Young Women ought not to be subject to Confinement for Insolvency. With regard to women, in order to avoid destroying their delicacy, & perhaps their virtue, Perhaps it were better that no woman short of person of that sex who is under a certain
age should be put into any place of confinement: to avoid destroying
her delicacy and perhaps her Virtues: unless the confinement
were solitary ; in which case being so much the severer,
it ought to be so much the shorter. If women so circumstanced
were not to be confined at all, where would be the harm?
The It seems probable that, a badge of disgrace such as is above proposed. would make as strong an impression upon
that tender Sex, as that and the confinement together would
upon men. Even if it should did not, where would be the inconvenience harm? If
persons thus circumstanced found it a little more difficult to get Credit
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