The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: With the Life of the Author. In Twelve Volumes. A New Edition. To which is Now First Added, The Fathers; Or, The Good-natured Man, Svazek 11

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W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, 1783
 

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Strana 275 - Industry to Wealth; from Wealth to Luxury; from Luxury to an Impatience of Discipline and Corruption of Morals; till by a total Degeneracy and loss of Virtue, being grown ripe for Destruction, it falls a Prey at last to some hardy Oppressor, and, with the Loss of Liberty, losing every Thing else, that is valuable, sinks gradually again into its original Barbarism.
Strana 263 - An Enquiry into the Causes of the late Increase of Robbers, &c. with some Proposals for Remedying this Growing Evil. In which the Present Reigning Vices are impartially exposed; and the Laws that relate to the Provision for the Poor, and to the Punishment of Felons are largely and freely examined.
Strana 313 - ... to take and seize so much of the goods and chattels, and receive so much of the annual rents and profits of the lands and tenements of such husband, father or mother, as such two...
Strana 349 - ... shall have the upper part of the gristle of his right " ear cut off ; and if after that he be taken wandering in " idleness, or doth not apply to his labour, or is not in service " with any Master, he shall be adjudged and executed as a

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