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27

Inserenda
Amplification

It is inconceivable the effect this has in fascinating leading astray
the judgment and corrupting the taste
of the younger class of students readers. The notion conception
they form to themselves of the personages thus
gorgeously arrayed, is of a kind of being,
separated from and elevated above the ordinary
race of mortals. This sort of colouring being
more properly laid upon the object as it is
of higher antiquity, hence the pupil learns to
proportion his respect to them in a ratio according to a rule
that which is
reverse of the rational one. Wisdom is
the fruit of experience. Experience accumulates with age. The natural course
of things therefore (unless impeded turned by violent
and
extraordinary revolutions of which the press has barred for ever the return (violence of a sort that has
once appeared but it is impossible should ever
more return) is for the world to advance increase in wisdom as it advances comes on in ages. Upon tracing
the history of any country backwards, we fine our

This is directly contrary in opposition to the end a man
should propose to himself in every deducted
treatise, especially in on a ha subject of this
importance, which is to convey clear and adequate
ideas of the every subjects (he comes to touch
upon.)

Inserenda 27


Identifier: | JB/028/026/003
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 28.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

not numbered

Box

028

Main Headings

comment on the commentaries

Folio number

026

Info in main headings field

statute l. inserenda

Image

003

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f25 / b26 / f27 / b28

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] propatria [britannia motif]]]

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

9291

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