Statistics for occurrence #1 of “John Howard” in entry bankruptcy-laws-past-and-present of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:
...one declared that the bankruptcy laws of his time were founded on principles of humanity as well as justice.
Modern jurists would not now assure us that such was the case: else to what purpose did John Howard live, or how came it that Dickens moved a sympathetic world with his story of and the debt-deadened prisoners of Marshalsea.
Now, even the day seems passing when, in the words of the gentle .
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| † | John Howard | 160 | 26 | 8 | 0 | 0 user votes | |
| John Howard Payne | 40 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| John Howard Jewett | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| John Howard Hickcox | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| John Howard Hinton | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
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