JB/058/190/001

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16 May 1805
Evidence

Nor was the task by any means a difficult one. To persons
possessed of adequate and concentrated power, either nothing at all
was wanting, or nothing but a pretence: and pretences, where of the
nature of things did not present them already made, were as soon
made as wanted: especially where the condition of the persons
thus to be dealt with is considered, a defenceless and ignorant herd, without
either a hand or a head to help them: men to whose impotence
scarce a pretence was necessary, and upon whose stupidity simplicity
almost any pretence might pass.

Profit, reputation, power: between these three possessions
distinct as they are, so intimate is the connect, than in the
pursuit they are oftentimes indistinguishable: each is a road,
a ladder to the other.

Of these objects of desire and competition all were not
equally within the reach of every class of lawyers: profit, with
little power, and no preeminence of reputation was the lot which
several of them were destined to content themselves: reputation,
the cause and effect of profit, and frequently the cause porch at length perhaps the cause
of power even the more appropriate possession of the advocate;
power, of the Judge.

In the pursuit of these as of all other objects, more or
less labour is necessary: but in this case as in every other
the chance of obtaining the object being given, it is in the interest
and consequently thence the study endeavour of every man to reduce the quantity
of labour bestowed upon it to as low a pitch as low as possible: and
this, not only because labour, abstracted separated from its fruits, is
irksome bitter, but because the more less labour a man bestows in a
given time upon one object, the more he has to bestow upon others
whether of the nature of profit or of pleasure, sources of present enjoyment
or future.

Identifier: | JB/058/190/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1805-05-16	Marginal Summary Numbering	17-19
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	190	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d7 / e7
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	18859
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