JB/058/422/001

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17 May 1805
Evidence

The time of an English Judge is pretty fully occupied:
with inaction the least active of the number can not be charged. Yet
it is not time that is wante to the any want of time that the want of labour in the vineyard
of reformation can be charged. In the The quantity of time
employed in pollinating the abuses might suffice at least for indicating them they might at least be indicated.
For these many years the country has never been without a
number of lawyers – of dignitaries of the first conscience, whose
time has even hung heavy on their hands. As A Chief Justice
withdrawn from the bench sometimes by inability, sometimes by unwillingness
to have submitt endure endure any longer to the toils of office. Ex Chancellors
two or three at a time washed off the bench by the waves
of party politics and consigned either to absolute retreat, or to
one of those stations of some station of high dignity which to the appearance parade of doing
something add the comfort of doing nothing or what is to
next to it. Among all these so many able hands strong great men has any one been
ever seen engaged occupied or so much as suspected to have been engaged occupied
with so much as a thought about repairing the repair of any of the rotten
steps of rounds on the ladder by which he climbed? No, none not a single one:
Romances, poetry, nothing no occupation reading no occupation so frivolous, so frivolous that has not
been preferred to it. To a mind in which the association
between falshood and pleasure has been connected by the practice
and study of a whole life, falshood of an alone, falshood of
any thing, falshood in some shape or other, retains the power of
pleasing. Propose to him any occupation by which the cause welfare
of truth and justice might be served the happiness of mankind might be promoted, the interests of truth and justice served
his answer would be like that of the liberation philosopher to of whom the as
the face of his liberation the tyrant called bespoke for the boon of flattery –
No – any thing rather than this – drag one back rather to the quarry
or to the mine.

Identifier: | JB/058/422/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1805-05-17	Marginal Summary Numbering	10
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	422	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c6
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	19091
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