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1822 March 19

Think not my friend, that the in the habit of insisting upon impossibilities,
whether in theory or in practice – whether in
the legislative department or the executive is has nothing worse there is nothing worse
act of than more unconsequential absurdity. and folly Oh no: the road
to an impossibility is, under another name, the road
to ruin. Nothing would soever Think if you are Don content , Don Quixote would not till he
had overthrown the . He run a tilt at
one of them, and the wind-mill remain stood its ground. It stood
its ground. But what was that all? On no: for instead
of his Don Quixote's overthrowing the wind-mill, the wind-mill overthrew
him Don Quixote.

Oh my friends! what an act was that – the concluding
act of the last Cortes! They It Honourable Gentlemen would not print with Colombia
that they would not: submission from it nothing else less would they have. Well, and
for all this magnanimity all of theirs – all of it at your expence – what were are
you, my friends, what are even they the better? From this display
of theirs what is it they have reaped? is it admiration?
is it scorn? Any any where.

Now the If indeed they are distinguished upon the the reputation of magnanimity
and of magnanimity thus displayed displayed by the determination
that impossibilities shall be accomplished is a thing they are determined to have, I will shew
them how it may be : let chance put in it not they may to put in for it the only way in which it is to be had: it is
their own expence and at their own expence they must put in for it, not at yours. Let them then as may
as found in the well equip themselves either in the character in some appropriate character:
of say that of Don Quixote, in the character of say that of the Roman Curtius. Let
one of them, cap a pie cap-a-pied run a tilt at the country of Columbia, and try
whether he can sink it: let the other another man and horse plunge
into one of the seas that wash Columbia, and try whether it will that and
the other will swallow it up between them. In all this, if there is
nothing more, there will at any rate be nothing by , nothing selfish, nothing
sordid rapacious, nothing treacherous,
nothing base.

Identifier: | JB/008/128/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 8.
Date_1	1822-03-19	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	008	Main Headings	rid yourselves of ultramaria
Folio number	128	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] i&m 1818]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public		ID Number	3232
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