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Remarkable Trials and Interesting Memoirs, of the Most Noted Criminals

London

Printed for W. Nicoll

1765

"[F]or 'tis a known Observation, that a young Mind is like a white Sheet of Paper, on which may be inscribed the most beautiful Images, as well as the ugliest Deformities."

To Parents, Guardians, Tutors, and others, who are entrusted with the Education of Youth, this Collection will be of admirable Use. For, by tracing the Steps of these Criminals, through the different Stages of their Wickedness to their final Catastrophe, they will be enabled to give such Lessons of Instruction to their young Pupils, as will very early convince them, of the sad and dreadful Consequences that necessarily attend Indulgencies to culpable Liberties of any Kind. They will the more easily inculcate the Precepts of Morality, by setting in Contrast to it the foul Aspect of Vicious Habits and a contaminated Life: By which [end page iv] Means they will gently, yet effectually, lead them to an Abhorrence fo Vice, and a Love of Virtue, and so conduct them to Honour and Happiness; for 'tis a known Observation, that a young Mind is like a white Sheet of Paper, on which may be inscribed the most beautiful Images, as well as the ugliest Deformities.
(pp. iv-v)

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Remarkable Trials and Interesting Memoirs, of the Most Noted Criminals, Who Have Been Convicted at the Assizes, the King's-Bench Bar, Guildhall, &C. ... from the Year 1740, To 1764., 2 vols. (London: Printed for W. Nicoll, 1765). Vol 1 of 2.

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