...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,...

...and every being that continues to be fed, and ceases to labour, takes away something from the public stock. The confinement, therefore, of any man in the...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;...

...and every being that continues to be fed, and ceases to labour, takes av/ay something from the public stock. The confinement, therefore, of any man in the...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...

...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,...

...gates of this city, I was struck with horror by a rueful cry, which summoned me to remember the fioor debtors. The wisdom and justice of the English laws...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...

...whatever society, wastes more than it acquires, must gradually decay; and every being that continues lo be fed, and ceases to labour, takes away something...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...

...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...

...and every being that continues to be fed, and ceases to labour, takes away something from the public stock; " The confinement, therefore, of any man in...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;...

...work, obliges them to beg ; or just, which exposes the liberty of one to the passions of another. " The confinement, therefore, of any man in the sloth...expectation. " If those, who thus rigorously exercise the right which the law has put into their power, be asked, why they continue to imprison those whom they...

...and every being that continues to be fed, and ceases to labour, takes away something from the public stock. The confinement, therefore, of any man in the...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...