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Personality – how to break.

1. By representing one's self as one of a number: "I am one of
those who etc."

2. By putting what one has to say into the mouth of another
character. This character may either be undetermined - indefinite –
as "Some say, etc." or determined. Determined either by their relation
to the opinion subject in question as "the Opposers of" or "the Defenders of this
opinion" or personally as "Lawyers – Divines – etc."

The uses of this contrivance are –

1. To remove obnoxious sentiments from the person of the Writer – sentiments that are

2. Sentiments which without being obnoxious in themselves, are
incongruous to the Character which he has assumed in the discourse in
question, or which is much the same thing – to the tile in which the
subject is treated, as observations of the ludicrous stile in a serious
discourse – these besides the precautions here spoken of, should be
inserted apart in the form of notes. (Orig MS. V.III. p.76)


Identifier: | JB/015/465/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 15.

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Box

015

Main Headings

deontology

Folio number

465

Info in main headings field

Image

002

Titles

Category

linking material

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f150

Penner

sir john bowring

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Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

5681

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