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Secret Were the gaining of a point this or that by management the object of these
pages the prohibition given by the laws of modesty
to the public discussion of these cases the cases alluded to might have
been relied rested upon as the sole and sufficient ground
for extending to causes of this class the veil
of secresy [+]: [+] supposing any other ground which might be apprehended to be obnoxious: but the time is now over when
dissimulation on questions of public import concern
was rendered a virtue enjoined by necessity had the
plea of necessity for an excuse, and he who
treats should treat the public with diffidence, I mean always
such a public as bears sway with in France,
would shew himself unworthy of its confidence.[+] [+] The prudent Fontenelle might be forgiven for declaring that were he to grasp if he had all the truths in the universe in the hollow of his hand, he would not unclench it to let them fly. But Louis the 14th reigned: and the National Assembly had not then yet shewn itself so much as in vision even no not to the Abbe de St Pierre.

In speaking of the public, I mean always such a
public as bears sway in France.

As for England it remains hag-ridden by
a thousand prejudices: and who shall say how
many ages longer it may be doomed to grovel
under the load?

Identifier: | JB/051/297/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 51.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	051	Main Headings	evidence; procedure code
Folio number	297	Info in main headings field	obs.
Image	004	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f13 / f14 / f15 / f16
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::floyd & co [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur young
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	16462
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