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INTRODUCT. DIMENSIONS of HAPPINESS.
common and equal concern for both which any
man in the such a station ought to feel for all, &
which every man does feel when they are towards all such perfect
as are strangers and when to all persons whenever he sets himself to
consider the effect upon of a Law upon men
as men, without suffering his thoughts to
fix on any particular individuals.
In short this addability of the happiness of
different subjects, is however when consider'd
rigorously it may appear fictitious, is a postulation
without the allowance of which all political rear
are at a stand: nor is it more fictitious than
the of that of the equality chances to reality
on which that whole branch of the Mathematics
which is called the doctrine of chances, is established
It is not rigorously true, that the chance of 1 to 2
for 20 guineas is equal to 5 , but it is true
that it is as nearer being equal to that sum
INTROD Happiness ; Not
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I know not whether
the effect of this note
on some readers
might not be rather
to perplex than
to satisfy, & whether
my anxiety to
put first principles
out of dispute, may not
have conjured
up objections
which will have
no body to own
them.
But an attack
will sometimes
be made at a
quarter the
least open, &
therefore the
least expected.
the few lines
following shall
therefore take their
chance. Those
who love not
allctaphysics/metaphysics?
may pass them
Tis only to the extremely scrupulous they are written.
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certain, than to any other sum certain; & that
if there were any sum certain to which it could
be strictly equal, it would be that.
The fictitious form of speech expression in both cases,
which fictitious as it is, can give birth to no false
consequences or conclusions, is adopted from a necessity
which induces the like p expedient in so many other instances
merely for the sake of abbreviation: as it would be endless to repeat
in every passage where it was used, the adm a advertisement of what it was
it wanted of being to be rigorously true.
This parallel [] is the more pertinent
as, in on any accession of the causes cult or
instruments (call riches them which you please)
of Happiness to a certain number of members
of a community, tho' no reality at the time yet a chance
accrues to all the rest: as if ransom-money Prize-money
be to be received by a body of men one ship's crew who
were con had scrupulous y's, here is a
chance accrue for a part of it to each
immediately immed Addible.
SECT. XII
MORTGAGEES
LXIV §42
Mortgagees in possession of Tolls, shall within 14 days after written
notice from any 5 Trustees, render, to them or to any person of their appointment
mentioned in such notice, an account in writing of all receipts
of disbursements by themselves or on their behalf,[not before accounted
for] respecting the Bond: or on every omission [without reasonable excuse criped by Health] shall forfeit £10 [or suffer
imprisonment for .....] to the benefit of the Bond
LXV §43
Mortgagees receiving the produce of the Tolls after satisfaction of the Sum
lent with Interest & Costs, shall forfeit the double the of such surplus received
with treble costs of Suit.
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