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2 June 1805
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§. Use of false wit to the man of law.

False wit, is a generic name by which Addison in his
Spectators, has bundled together a number of innocent verbal games,
plays upon words, frolicks of the imagination, that in their days, have
afforded the matter of delight to thousands upon thousands,
, and so forth. Bundled together, and for what
purpose? like Zares in the Gospel only to be thrown into the fire. A certain
degree of expansion of mind led the Essayist to set his pen to work to endeavour to put
his reader out of concert of these innocent amusements: a further of liberality upon
might have taught him to let them alone. Suppose me to When you have succeeded
depriving a man of hisin drying up any a source of amusement, what are either of
you us the better for it your success. By the display of my own superiority
I have afforded a gratification to my own pride: but do you,
do you when I have been robbing of your pleasure, owe me any
thanks? The By no means: the gain such as it is, is all mine: the result to you,
is so much less. A party of young men are amusing
themselves in a trap-ball ground. What thanks would they owe
me of following up the idea of the Essayist I were to treat entertain going up to them and them
them with an harangue , I were to succeed in convincing them.
But trap-ball was a false game, and teams (a game which
they could not afford to play at) the only time one.

Apply this to pecuniary, to to any thing: to and
with , as well as to debt without ruin. To
body or to mind, whatever gives pleasure without giving preponderant pain,
has its value, a value which runs exactly in proportion to the .
Lord I thank thee that I am not as other men are to such,
meaning the kind of vulgar man, was the motto boast of the Phoenix,
such is the boast among the boasts of the modern man of taste.

Identifier: | JB/058/138/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1805-06-02	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	138	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	18807
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