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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... "
The barouche driver and his wife - Page 184
by Charles Sedley (novelist.) - 1807
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The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...

Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 334 pages
...all the shameless and profligate enormities that can be produced by the impudence of ignominy; the rage of want, and the malignity of despair. In a prison the awe of the public eye is lost, and the power of the law is spent.; there are few fears, there are no blushes....
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Fleet Papers, Volume 3

1843 - 698 pages
...shameless and profligate enormities that can be produced by the impudence of ignominy, the rage »f want, and the malignity of despair. In a prison the awe of the public eye i« lost, and the power of the law is spent: there are few fear», there are no blushes....
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 1

American literature - 1865 - 820 pages
...all the shameless and profligate enormities that can be produced by the imprudence of ignominy, the rage of want, and the malignity of despair. In a prison the check of the public eye is removed, and the power of the law is 'spent. There are no fears — there...
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Prison Discipline: And the Advantages of the Separate System of ..., Volume 1

John Field - Jails - 1848 - 192 pages
...all the shameless and profligate enormities that can be produced by the impudence of ignominy, the rage of want, and the malignity of despair. In a prison the awe of the public eye is lost, and the power of the law is spent ; there are few fears ; there are no blushes....
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 1; Volume 64

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1865 - 822 pages
...all the shameless and profligate enormities that can be produced by the imprudence of ignominy, the rage of want, and the malignity of despair. In a prison the check of the public eye is removed, and the power of the law is spent. There are no fears — there...
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Select Essays, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 316 pages
...all the shameless and profligate enormities that can be produced by the impudence of ignominy, the rage of want, and the malignity of despair. In a prison the awe of the public eye is lost, and the power of the law is spent ; there are few fears, there are no blushes....
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Select Essays of Dr. Johnson: The Rambler (Continued). The Adventurer. The Idler

Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 286 pages
...all the shameless and profligate enormities that can be produced by the impudence of ignominy, the rage of want, and the malignity of despair. In a prison the awe of the public eye is lost, and the power of the law is spent ; there are few fears, there are no blushes....
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Johnson the Essayist, His Opinions on Men, Morals and Manners: A Study

Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 pages
...all the shameless and profligate enormities that can be produced by the impudence of ignominy, the rage of want, and the malignity of despair. In a prison the awe of the publick eye is lost, and the power of the law is spent ; there are few fears, there are no blushes....
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Imagining the Penitentiary: Fiction and the Architecture of Mind in ...

John Bender - History - 1987 - 355 pages
...all the shameless and profligate enormities that can be produced by the impudence of ignominy, the rage of want, and the malignity of despair. In a prison the awe of the publick eye is lost, and the power of the law is spent; there are few fears, there are no blushes....
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The Early Sociology of Health and Illness: Medical Police : or The ..., Page 1

Kevin White - Social Science - 2004 - 342 pages
...all the shameless and profligate enormities that can be produced by the impudence of ignominy, the rage of want, and the malignity of despair. * In a prison the awe of the * For the correctness of these epithets, I do not pledge myself. They could only suit a person...
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