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If there tho' so it be that there exists a general
connection between beneficence and extra prudence
viz: extra-regarding prudence of such sort as
that beneficence is generally speaking conducive
more or less to self regarding interest, hence
follows the practical memento 1st to employ
all such occasions as present themselves of
themselves for the exercise of beneficence;
in the next pace 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 thro' want of opportunity or
thro' fatigue they cannot apply to business;
and which for want of relish or means they
cannot employ in pleasure.

For filling up vacancies of this kind
according to the disposition natural or acquired
the exercise of beneficence may with 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 scale of
power to whom opportunities for the
exercise of this virtue may not occasionally
present themselves.

For the 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 consists in the
avoiding to give annoyance, in all
the several imaginable shapes, which see

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	553	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f239
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	sir john bowring	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	5769
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