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The plan was not ill laid for a plan of knavery;
but it is the property of knavery that its success hang
upon a hair; and where exposed to the public eye the
breath of one honest man is enough to break it.

That there is a species of "boldness" in the "self-flattery"
here professes by Mr Elliott will not be disputed
with him; but what purpose it can answer to a man,
in the act of setting fire to a train, to boast of the pains he is
taking to prevent the conflagrations, is a question not
easy to resolve.

Actions are the test of words. A wish, which would have
been the language of virtue in the mouth of a guardian
of peace, corrupt into hypocritical violence in the impure
tips of a Minister of violence. Such is the response of an
honest man to this concluding prayer.

Anti-Machiavel.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	009	Main Headings
Folio number	066	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c15
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Notes public	bowring, x, 201ff	ID Number	3367
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