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1819 March or April Deontology First

If then is it to be that there exists a general connection between
beneficence and prudence viz. extra-regarding prudence of such sort
as that temperance is generally speaking conducive more or less
to self-regarding interest, hence follows the practical moments
as to employ all such occasions as present themselves of themselves
for the expertise of beneficence, in the next place to keep
on the look out for others.

With more or less frequency most men have more or less considerable
quantity of time as the phrase is upon their hands:
time which through want of opportunity or thro' fatigue they
can not apply to business, and which for want of relish or
means they can not employ in pleasure.

For filling up vacancies of this kind according to the disposition
natural or acquired the exercise of beneficence may
may more or less advantage serve.

But without his being at the pains of looking out for them
there is no man however low his condition in the seat of
power to whom opportunity for the exercise of this virtue
may not occasionally present themselves.

For exercise of the negative branch of this virtue opportunities
are continually presenting themselves to every human
being.

Commensurate with or included in this negative branch
of beneficence is that negative virtue that consents
in the availing to give abeyance, in all the several
imaginable shapes which see

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Date_1	1819-03	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	085	Info in main headings field	deontology private
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] i&m 1818]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public		ID Number	5301
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