“According to the rule generally received, which supposes that one in thirty dies yearly, the race of man may be said to be renewed at the end of thirty years.” That was said by author Samuel Johnson in his excerpt from “Debtors’ Prisons.” In this excerpt it comes off pretty obvious that he does not agree with the reasons some people get sent to prison. In this excerpt he just so happens to mainly be speaking up for the prisoners of debt.
In the first paragraph of the essay Johnson writes, “…an enquiry is said to have been made by which it appears that more than twenty thousand are at this time prisoners for debt.” He then later writes in the third paragraph, “…let us therefore coolly enquire what is the sum of evil which the imprisonment
In the first paragraph of the essay Johnson writes, “…an enquiry is said to have been made by which it appears that more than twenty thousand are at this time prisoners for debt.” He then later writes in the third paragraph, “…let us therefore coolly enquire what is the sum of evil which the imprisonment