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24 Jany 1800
Paper Mischief

Prices have risen to such a degree as to
be double to what they were 40 years
ago: or even though this should not be exactly
true: they will in at the end of another 40 years be
double what they are at present, and at least quadruple what they were 40 years ago,
and thereby either exactly double or more
than double what they are at present.

Those propositions which are but the same
as the two former come nearer the mark
of clear and explicit language than they do:
but still not as yet near enough for the purpose.
Familiar as they are The texture of them is extremely general in the extreme
and proportionably vague and inexplicit: nor
will any sufficiently accurate conception of the
import of them be obtainable, without unfolding
them and displaying one by one the more
particular propositions of which they are composed.

Prices being a general term and no words
imparting restriction being added to it, by the one
words saying Prices have risen so much in such a
time is meant taking in shortness of speech
that this same rates of encrease has taken
place without exception in regard to all sorts
of articles of all sorts: but the degree of uniformity
thus indicated being contradicted by contrary to all
experience, the utmost that can be really intended
by anyone who in using such a phrase is that
the

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Date_1	1800-01-24	Marginal Summary Numbering	3-4
Box	003	Main Headings	manual of political economy
Folio number	105	Info in main headings field	paper mischief
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	<…>m 1798
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1798
Notes public		ID Number	1515
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