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1 June 1808
of The inconvenience referable to this head would
scarcely be worth mentioning, as numbers in this place, but were it not for the
circumstance by which when seriously burthensome, the burthen of
circumstance by which it is liable to be produced,
and by the removal of which the burthen would might be
either removed or alleviated.
This circumstance (it has already been mentioned of) +
+ See Ch. 15 What part of this to be inserted here — what then? is the obligation forced pretence of pretended unanimity. When
twelve men are to be compelled, all of them to join
in declaring this or that to be their opinion, in circumstances
under in which that declaration must in time
the instance of form one to eleven of the number, be
an act of perjury — what is but natural is — that
if there be any sense of religion such sense as that of religion or of honour among them, as consider
and that sense not stifled deadened and rendered as
it is so apt to be, inspiration by custom, that is by
the disregard observation of the testified on the part of others for the obligation in question]
a certain degree of and reluctance and contrition
in the company, each wishing desirous of to put aside
the guilt from himself, whatsoever may be the course taken on the opposite side. There in the part of
one or more of them, according to their respective Importance and families
either a silent passive perseverance, or active exertion, in the
way of discourse and argumentation active exertions made in the
hope of gaining proselytes from the other side.
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