 ... the public stock. The confinement, therefore, of any man in the sloth and darkness of a prison, is a loss to the nation, and no gain to the creditor. For of the multitudes who are pining in those cells of misery, a very small part is suspected of...  The Pamphleteer - Strana 535úprava: - 1815Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | 1795 - Počet stránok 432
...gain to the creditor; for, of the multitude who are pining in those cells of misery, a very small parr is suspected of any fraudulent act by which they retain...revenge, or the acrimony of disappointed expectation. JOHNSOK. Idler, vol, ip 121. THOSE who made the laws of imprisonment for debt, have apparently supposed,... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - Počet stránok 220
...it acquires, must gradually decay ; and every being that continues to be fed, and ceases to labour, takes away something from the public stock. The confinement,...answer, that his debtor once lived better than himself; anotherj that his wife looked above her neighbours, and his children went in silk clothes to the dancingschool;... | |
 | 1803 - Počet stránok 196
...must gradually decay ; and every being that continues to be fed, and ceases to labour, takes av/ay something from the public stock. The confinement,...expectation. If those, who thus rigorously exercise the powerwhich the law has put into their hands, be asked, why they continue to imprison those whom they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - Počet stránok 594
...small part is suspected of any fradalent act by which they retain what belongs to others'. The r' st are imprisoned by the wantonness of pride, the malignity...revenge, or the acrimony of disappointed expectation. ' . . " Idler', vol. i, p. nr. Since poverty is punished among us as a crime, ' it ought, at least,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - Počet stránok 386
...and every being that continues lo be fed, and ceases to labour, takes away something from the publick stock. The confinement, therefore, of any man in the...answer, that his debtor once lived better than himself; and another, that his wife looked above her neighbours and his children went in silk clothes to the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - Počet stránok 386
...and every being that continues to be fed, and ceases to labour, takes away something from the publick stock. The confinement, therefore, of any man in the...those who thus rigorously exercise the power which the luw has put into their hands, be asked, why they continue to imprison those whom they know to be unable... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - Počet stránok 310
...darkness of a prison, is a loss to the nation, and no gain to the creditor. For of the multi tudes who are pining in those cells of misery, a very small...acrimony of disappointed expectation. If those, who thus rigouronsly exercise the power which the law has put into their hands, be asked, why they continue... | |
 | William Playfair - 1814 - Počet stránok 538
...it requires, must gradually decay; and every being that continues to be fed, and ceases to labour, takes away something from the public stock; " The...asked, why they continue to imprison those whom they VOL. 2. Y know to be unable to pay them one will answer, tbat his debtor once lived better than himself;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - Počet stránok 430
...it acquires, must gradually decay ; and every being that continues to be fed, and ceases to labour, takes away something from the public stock. The confinement,...they continue to imprison those whom they know to he unable to pay them : one will answer, that his debtor once lived better than himself; another, that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - Počet stránok 510
...it acquires, must gradually decay ; and every being that continues to be fed, and ceases to labour, takes away something from the public stock. The confinement,...continue to imprison those whom they know to be unable to pay4hem one will answer, that his debtor once lived better than himself ; another, that his wife looked... | |
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