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Article on Utilitarianism.

1829. June 2. A. 4.

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Circulating library
at Harper's Coffee
house

Somehow or other shortly after its
publication a copy of this pamphlet found its
way into the little circulating library belonging
to a little coffee-house called Harper's coffee-house
attached as it were to Queen's College Oxford and
deriving from the population of that College the whole
of its subsistence. It was the a corner house having
one front towards the High Street, another towards a
narrow lane which on that side skirts Queen's
College and loses itself in a lane issuing from one
of the gates of New College. To this library the subscription
was a shilling a quarter or in the University
phrase a shilling a term. Of this subscription the
produce was composed of two or three newspapers with
magazines one or two and now and then a newly-
published pamphlet: a moderate sized octavo was
a rare if ever exemplified spectacle: composed partly
of pamphlets, partly of magazines half-bound together
a few dozen volumes composed this library which formed
so curious a contrast with the Bodleian library
and those of Christ Church and All Souls.

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A 1768 Mr Bentham's
last visit to Oxford.

The year 1768 was the latest of the years
in which Mr. Bentham ever made at Oxford a
residence of more than a day or two. The occasion of
that visit was the giving of his vote in his quality of
Master of Arts for the University of Oxford on the
occasion of a Parliamentary election. He not being
at that time arrived at the age of 21 this deficiency
in the article of age might have given occasion to an
election-contest in the House of Commons had not the
majority been put out of doubt by a sufficient number
of votes not exposed to contestation. This year 1768
was the latest of all the years on which this pamphlet
could have come into his hands. Be that as it may, it

Identifier: | JB/014/361/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 14.
Date_1	1829-06-02	Marginal Summary Numbering	7-8
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	361	Info in main headings field	article on utilitarianism
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e4 / f4
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	1828
Marginals	george bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1828
Notes public		ID Number	5124
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