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" ... 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 - Page 541
edited by - 1815
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Materials for thinking extracted from the works of the learned of all ages

Materials - 1846 - 478 pages
...the sloth and darkness of a prison, is a loss to the nation, and no gain to the creditor. For of th-i multitudes who are pining in those cells of misery,...revenge, or the acrimony of disappointed expectation. — Johnson. Entrance into Life.— It is doing a service to mankind to destroy the prejudice which...
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Laconics: Or the Best Words of the Best Authors ...

John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...cells of misery, a very small part is suspected of any fraudulent act by which they retain what belong to others. The rest are imprisoned by the wantonness...revenge, or the acrimony of disappointed expectation. — Johnson. DCLXXIL Those who in the common course of the world will call themselves your friends...
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Laconics, Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors: In Three Volumes, Volume 2

Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 372 pages
...cells of misery, a very small part is suspected of any fraudulent act by which they retain what belong to others. The rest are imprisoned by the wantonness...pride, the malignity of revenge, or the acrimony of disappomted expectation. — Johnson. DCLXXIL Those who in the common course of the world will call...
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The Local Preachers' Magazine and Christian Family Record: For ..., Volumes 9-10

Church work with the poor - 1859 - 400 pages
...than 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,...revenge, or the acrimony of disappointed expectation. — Johnson. TALENT. ONE man perhaps proves miserable in the study of the law, who might have flourished...
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Johnson the Essayist, His Opinions on Men, Morals and Manners: A Study

Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 pages
...who ends her letter by informing The Rambler that she intends to remain single. Poor Debtors. — " The rest are imprisoned by the wantonness of pride,...malignity of revenge, or the acrimony of disappointed expectations." 6 The Corruptions of Gaols. — " They are filled . . . with all the shameless and profligate...
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