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1831 June 22
Book of Church Reform

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Let any in to one end
in the of Laws or Commands


Supposing every thing there stated to be strictly and unquestionably true,
what is it to the purpose? To the purpose of causing the people to
think well of the Establishment in question as being at present
well constituted? To cause it to be Of any one of the charges
brought against it as above by Mr Butler, and as will be seen below, by
it
to be regarded as ill grounded groundless or insufficiently grounded.
What is it to the purpose? Answer. Just nothing or
to this nothingness, is it possible that the a mind such as
that of Dr Southeys should have been insensible?

An advantage A third service A service third service of no mean account rendered to the
Book of Church Reform by the Book of the Church, is the contained and in particular
by the evidence delivered by virtually contained in it, as above, is
the conciseness rendered
by the conciseness of
the form in which it
is conveyed. Small
would be the com space
in which it would be
condensed, if contained
in the compass of a single
word: and the space occupied
by silence is
still smaller.

A word requires but
a small space: silence
none at all.

in the conclusiveness, persuasiveness convincingness and conciseness qualities all united
in the evidence thus afforded by the Book of Church
Reform in support proof of the truth of the abovementioned charges in the Book
[intituled Church of Englandism examined] of the most essential
part of which the foll what here follows is a reprint.

As to conclusiveness, be the reader who he may,
the higher the place occupied in his estimation the judgment
and talent of the eloquent and learned Doctor is, the more impressive
in his mind will be the confessional evidence thus delivered.
That evidence of which though negative of the negative case the probative
force is so much stronger than it is in the power of any positive
force, emanating from the same sources to be.

[Conclusive in its own nature — cravening is its natural
effect in the minds minds in question.

As to conciseness — To the power of these two qualities, this third affords
no null addition: in the case of positive evidence, the longer the train
of it is — the weaker, and the more exposed to attack: so many in a chain of evidence
b the greater the number of the links, the greater the probability of
its being broken, by the weakness of this and that one of them, or the escape
made
made by it out of the
memory.

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Identifier: | JB/008/168/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 8.

Date_1

1831-08-11

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Box

008

Main Headings

Folio number

168

Info in main headings field

colonization society

Image

002

Titles

brouillon raw materials

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

e4

Penner

jeremy bentham

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Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

3272

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