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178 Sept. 1814 2

Logic or Ethics Ch. Propriety

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A of terms were therefore to be to
Such are the observations, of which the effect was the
suggesting the expediency — not to say the necessity of looking out for some other word
which, express being capable of expressing on other occasions
the ideas for the expression of which but for the above
objections the word utility would have been employed,
should at the same time be free from those same objections.
This word desideratum In the word propriety, with its several conjugates
proper, improper and impropriety, this desideratum desirable quality seemed
to be found.

I In respect of intensity of import — no crime however
heinous so ever but will readily be admitted to be improper: In relation to no
crime how heinous so ever will it be denied, that the
promotion of it, viz. understood in so far as it can be effected without
the introduction of preponderant evil in some other shape
is a proper object is a proper object to be aimed at. True it is that
In a rhetorical point of view To the rhetorician so an expression thus
cool may, in respect of its coolness, be apt to present
itself as not well suited to the occasion — or in a word
as being itself improper.
[+] His object being to
put others into a passion
his practice is to
be so or to appear to be
so in his own instance:
and, by so cool a term,
not passion but the absence
of passion is expressed.

But to the eye of the logician an objection of this
sort will not present a very formidable aspect: and it
is in a logical and not in a rhetorical point of view
that the field of morals is all along throughout meant to be presented
in this work.

Identifier: | JB/014/136/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 14.
Date_1	1814-09-18	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	136	Info in main headings field	logic or ethics
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d2 / e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] mj&l 1811]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	colonel aaron burr
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1811
Notes public		ID Number	4899
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