 | 1761 - 308 pages
...the Monafterjes of other countries. It is, furely, lefs foolifh and lefs criminal to permit ina&ien than compel it ; to comply with doubtful opinions...extravagancies of erroneous piety, than to multiply and enfojce temptations to wickcdnefs. THE mifery of gaols is not half their evil ; they are filled with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English essays - 1767 - 316 pages
...the Monafteries of other countries. It is, furely, lefs foolifh and lefs criminal to permit ina&ion than compel it ; to comply with doubtful opinions...and enforce temptations to wickednefs. THE mifery of gaols is not half their evil ; they are filled with every corruption which poverty and wickednefs can... | |
 | 1775 - 868 pages
...imprudent are commonly young, and the active and bufy are feldomold. " The mifery of goals," continues he, is not half their evil ; they are filled with every...which poverty and wickednefs can generate between them ; w ith all the fhamelefs and profligate enormi ties that can be produced by the impudence of ignominy,... | |
 | Jonas Hanway - Crime - 1781 - 302 pages
...following extract : '* The mifery of " gaols" (meaning the Ample confinement and want of neceflaries) " is not half, " their evil : They are filled with every '* corruption which poverty and wtckednefs " can generate between them ; with all *' the fhamclcfs and profligate enormities " that... | |
 | 1787 - 528 pages
...the monafteries of other countries. It it, furely, lefs foolilh and lefs criminal to permit ir.aíHon than compel it; to comply with doubtful opinions of...condemn to certain and apparent mifery; to indulge the extravagances of errontout piety, than to multiply and enforce '.rmptations to wirkednrfs. • The... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 430 pages
...monafteries pf other countries. It is, furfly, lefs foolifh. and lefs .criminal to permit inaction than compel it; to comply with doubtful opinions of...condemn to certain and apparent mifery ; to indulge the extravagances of erroneous piety, than to multiply and enforce temptations to wickednefs. The mifery... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 432 pages
...doubtful opinions of happinefs, than condemn to certain and apparent m.fery ; to indulge the extravagances of erroneous piety, than to multiply and enforce temptations to wickednefs. The mifery of gaols is not half their evil : they are filled with every corruption which poverty and wickednefs can... | |
 | English literature - 1759 - 760 pages
...compel it ; to comply with doubtful opinions of happinels, than condemn to certain and apparent mile17 ; to indulge the extravagancies of erroneous piety,...multiply and enforce temptations to wickednefs. The milery of gaols is not half their tfil ; they are filled with every corruption which poverty and wickednefs... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 432 pages
...to permit inaction than compel it ; to comply with doubtful opinions of happinefs, than iconr demn to certain and apparent mifery ; to indulge the extravagancies...and enforce temptations to wickednefs. The mifery of gaols is not half their evil: they are filled with every corruption which poverty and wickednefs can... | |
 | History - 1802 - 522 pages
...it ; to corrîply with doubtful opinions of happiness, than condemn to certain and apparent misery; to indulge the extravagancies of erroneous piety, than to multiply and enforce temptations to wickeoíness. The misery of gaols is not half their evil : they are filled with every corruption which... | |
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The misery of gaols is not half their evil : they are filled with every corruption which poverty and wickedness can generate between them ; with all the shameless and profligate enormities that can be produced by the impudence of ignominy, the rage of... 
