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45 Annuity Notes

Ch. Plan Note [22][Portrait ... from an engraving on wood]

The Each Note being, for the purposes already
mentioned [note ] made divisible into two parts,
it may be of use that each should have its portrait
— that whatever degree of security against forgery
the portrait may be capable of affording should be
possessed by each. The principal portrait being
from an engraving in a plate of metal or some other such material
as requires a rolling press to work it off,
it may be of use that the additional portrait
should be from an engraving in wood. The reason
is that the two branches of the art are in practice effect
distinct arts, exercised in the way of <add>for business</add> by different hands. If then
notwithstanding this additional security the
attempt be made , one of two things must happen:
either it mu the two operations must either be carried executed
on performed by two different hands, or by the same hand,
in the first case In both cases the difficulty is
by this means increased: in the first case by
the difficulty of chances there are against the
concurrence of two hands in the prosecution of
so dangerous a design an enterprize , and by the due increased
probability of discovery through imprudence or
disagreement; in the other case, by the chances there
are against the union of two such different branches
of art — (and that to a degree of perfecttion adequate
to the purpose ) in one and the same hand. The
fewer the individuals smaller the number of the artists who are capable of bringing
such an union to bear, the smaller the chance of finding
among them a forgerer in among the number of them an person capable
of attempting the commission of such a crime: and
the greater the degree of talent requisite, the less the
chance that a man possessed. of that degree of talent
should regard it as worth his while [+} [+] to engage in so desperate a course to have reason recourse to such desperate resources for his support. <add>To

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Identifier: | JB/002/125/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 2.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	002	Main Headings	Annuity Notes
Folio number	125	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.	Page Numbering	D41 / F41
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks	<…>M 1798
Marginals		Paper Producer	Frances Wright
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1798
Notes public		ID Number	864
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