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Ao 1789 Supply – New Species proposed
2. It would tend in a considerable degree to frustrate the purpose
of the law: Men would turn every thing into
life-annuities. Their incomes being thus encreased
industry would be less necessary to them, dissipation
would be dissipation would be encreased, and the buyer and seller would
share between them what was meant to be appropriated
to the use of the state.
3. It would retrench the comforts so necessary that
are so much wanted to ballance the afflictions of
the aged and the infirm. It would deprive them a man
of the services of those where a multitude is
of a variety of services very important in their his eyes
in the case where their his circumstances did not admit
of their his making an adequate return in his
life-time or where the a fund of retribution depending
upon so uncertain a knave as that of
his life would not be sufficient to attach afford
an adequate source of attachment. Adoptive children,
with or without the formality of adoption,
come in default of natural ones, and are a great
source of comfort to old age.
Identifier: | JB/009/037/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 9.
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supply - new species proposed ao 1789 appropriation of collateral successions |
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]] |
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benjamin constant |
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letter 680, vol. 4; draft |
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