JB/036/029/001

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1821. April 26. First Series

(7.)

Master of the Horse knows nothing about Horses but employs those who do.

As to the remainder of the most noble Servant's salary,
the good economy with which it is employed is not manifests
itself in a different shape.

Of the appetites to which, in the case of the Monarch,
gratification is sought to be afforded, one, nor that the least voracious,
is that appetite for or desire of esteem, respect, love, or at least
the exterior evidences, true or false, of the existence of those inward
sentiments – those accompaniments and securities for general obsequiousness
– that desire which, notwithstanding the complicatedness of
its object, is in one word commonly designated by the appellation of
pride. Proportioned to the depth to which the humiliation of the individual
at whose expense this gratification is afforded descends, is
the intensity of the humiliation. But, proportioned to the antecedent
elevation of this individual in the scale of dignity, natural or factitious or both together is the relative
depth of the humiliation to which on any given occasion, for
any particular purpose he is capable of lowering himself. By the
holding the bridle of a favourite horse while the Royal Master is
in the act of mounting – by this or any other act done performed in the execution
of this office, the utmost length of the descent capable of being
made by the man the magnitude of whose salary was determined
by no higher mark of value than that which corresponded to
the skill possessed and exercised by him in the field of this particular
office and profession, woul could not at the utmost be any
greater than that which corresponds to the difference between the
salary pay of this official functionary and the pay of an ordinary groom:
say a quantity of pay equal to ten times the amount of the pay of the groom,
and the quantity of pay exactly equal to the amount of that
lowest pay. But the amount of the salary pay which, in consideration
of the exalted station occupied by the titled and most noble though unskilled attendant upon
horses is a hund ten times the amount of the salary pay which it would good
be convenient and advisable to give management economy would require to be given to the untitled but well-skilled
functionary, and thereby a hundred times the amount of that which
good economy would require to be given to the untitled and unskilled attendant.

Identifier: | JB/036/029/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1821-04-25	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	029	Info in main headings field	first lines
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c7
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	10953
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