JB/047/416/001

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10 Mar 1803
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rhetoricians take for their tools: words which give a double
import to every proposition into which they are introduced
words which to to in the proposition expressive of the act, involve slip in
another proposition expressive of general approbation or disapprobation
as attached to it.(b) (b) Reference to Introd. of
Dumont Principles.
By far the greater part
of the harangues we read of
in public assemblies not
to speaking ordinary books
will would be found if examined
into to be composed of an
application of this
class of terms. In the idea of treachery or
rather (what in itself is the very different) – traitorship – for
here lies fallacy within fallacy, was conceived in those days
to be involved the highest degree of political turpitude – and thence
what in those days was to say nothing of our own was scarce
regarded as distinguishable from it – moral turpitude. In
the choice of this rhetorical word, we may descry one attempt
the endeavour – on the part of the authors wh by which soever
appellation they may be termed employers and establishers of this rule – to
engage men's passions on its side. A The men who
out of whose lips should come a word, which in consequence
of a legal decision grounded on it, may come to operate to
his disadvantage may be said to betray betrays himself: in a word he is a traitor
to himself. If he who is a traitor to the prejudice of
another is so bad a man, how much worse must be the
man who proves a traitor to himself, as much worse
as the a suicide is to than a common murderer. But if
such be the crime of him who gives testimony to his own
prejudice, what must they be who should seek to force him to it? what
but accessories to the crime. Invested with authority as
we are shall it be our endeavour to force the suitor
into this aggravated species of traitorship treason? To do so
would be to dip the pure hands of justice into the guilt
of this most atrocious of all crimes.

Identifier: | JB/047/416/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 47.
Date_1	1813-03-10	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	047	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	416	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	15284
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