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LIBELS
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from anxiety, [which leaves us at liberty to frame plans of a badness & comprehension ...which]
We all now see that the constitution is arrived at that degree of robustness, at which it can bear those strong notions as eternal preservatives against Despotism, which to judge before hand would appear in any state too strong for it to bear.
I hope now we have obtained it this experience we shall not be either ashamed or afraid turn to
it into profit.
It is not to the reproach of the Natural Philosopher that if he does not [always]
ought the result of every arduous & intricate experiment: but it is to be
reproach if after it be made he has made it, he suffers it to lie dormant & refuses a
to convert it to the profit of his Science.
Specific terms of reproach might be enumerated and deemed actionable of uttered verbally - eg "Lyar".
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Notions of general Reproach to be used against the Sovereign because not necessary for the canvassing of affairs and preservation of Liberty
Identifier: | JB/070/181/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 70.
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jeremy bentham |
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