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in the Oxfd Magaz. for June 1771
the extreme inaccuracy & absurdity
for 57 Lessors

The Ivy twines itself
around

Tubero upon Saffron Roots

We see (Religion/Superstition) like a lukerwarm factor
upon Morality and eat out it's very Heart
writings of popular moralizers

Popular Morality an confused mass chaos of insipid declamations
random assertions and in consequent conclusions

Where they are right
tho' unobserved
and in great measure
from that right

+ It is this that still guides them by its lustre tho'
obscured by a cloud of empty hollow & unexpressive words
with which this subject more than any other has been
oppressed.

In the details they go on well enough for the most part
because they naturally & in a manner superceptibly submitt
themselves to the guidance of this principle — and accord we shall find
upon the most rigorous 2 & minute 1 investigation with the regard to every position whatsoever relative to this subject which
we approve of that our approbation is either founded upon
this principle or upon none at all.

if we can give every precise
& intelligible reason
for our approbation of any
of them meritorious it is their coincidence
with this principly
and no other —




Identifier: | JB/050/124/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 50.

Date_1

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050

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procedure code

Folio number

124

Info in main headings field

certainty stare decisis

Image

002

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

jw

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Paper Producer

Corrections

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Notes public

ID Number

16115

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