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27 May 1808 18
35 Jury 184
Is this connotation procured - then where is the Spring of religion how small the cushion of religion in the number of men - why
Is it unobserved - then where is its utility?
In This institution may be seen, by all eyes that are not determinately shut against instruction and truth as sure a curious one
a to a reflecting mind are assisting exemplification of the degree of debasement
and thraldom and into which [the] mind of the bully] of the
community has been plunged reduced by the interested artifice of a
small part of it:
In this example it may at the same time be seen
to how great a degree many notions of are determined
by blind prejudice, and in no small a degree by
reason and regard to public welfare general ability.
Take almost Address yourself to any man, and without appreciation
of the application you mean to make, ask
him whether in his lying is a beneficial and laudable,
or even an innocent practice, he will look
you in the face, and ask you about you take him for.
Ask him whether lying then being it seems as being
a practice not to be approved of, its title to
approbation becomes in every degree unproved by the
circumstance by which from simple lying converts it is converted it into
perjury - he will beseech you to inform him at
once where a series of questions begin as designed ,
and to think better of him than to suppose any
direct affection in him first necessary to convey the making known
to you those Sentiments.
Ask him whether the no his corruption of the weakest
be conducive to the ends of justice that a person in
the status of a Judge should be trussed up in the basket
of as and for his opinion - an opinion contrary
to literary arts - with a smile or a frown, according
to the general tenor of his mind, or the transfer in which your question
finds him, he will find means to let you know ...nor you to find instead that to
a question of such a complication an express answer is not to be insisted upon or expected.
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