JB/047/377/001

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29 Jany 1812
Evidence

In the shape of ease – that negative indeed but not
the less efficient principle of action, so powerful, yet so little
heeded – be in the shape of ease, the advantage profit gained by the
substitution of deceptious to instructive evidence is
too great and too various, to admitt of any tolerably
adequate description within the limits prescribed by the
design of the present sketch. Strained through learned and ever obsequious lips, the information, though always
constantly more or less false and delusive, is comes purified from every
thing that could render it offensive; and perfumed
by offered up by the at the same time by clouds of appropriate incense,
and hands by which everything that is squalid, rough, and vulgar,
being, at the same time, and by the same means
those ways kept from and giving
essence to obtruding itself upon learned and reverend eyes. Of the wretches
out of whose torments the comforts of the wearer of
purple and fine linen are extracted, the torments are
kept from exhibiting a spectacle offensive presenting themselves to his
reverend eyes, the cries and just reproaches from wounding
his reverend ears: in a word, every thing that is
at once pleasing and delusive is let in,
everything that is displeasing and instructive and shut out and
excluded and kept at a distance. Of the misery miseries of
which he is the wilful and fully conscious well paid author,
he escapes from the reproach, because though in his
situation ignorance, –non-observance, anything short of the fullest knowledge
is impossible, yet, not being sure to see them,
he stands clear from the imputation of having given
birth to them – in the eyes of the and acquitted clear and ever spotless
awestruck and deluded the eyes of the ever-admiring and
ever-deluded multitude.

Identifier: | JB/047/377/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 47.
Date_1	1812-01-29	Marginal Summary Numbering	2
Box	047	Main Headings	rationale of judicial evidence
Folio number	377	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d32 / e2 / f158
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	15245
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