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4 The exertion of successful virtue in conducting an high-spirited & jealous people nation onwards to
it's their happiness, is 3 the 1 most 2 &c refined & exquisite of all pleasures delights; + + I appeal to &c a delight which may compare a faint emblem of which is that viz: of human Nature is susceptible
tis that felt by the angler which the expert angler feels, at the instant when some a vigorous ponderous & wily lusty fish inhabitant of the water
subdued after a long many a rude struggle by the perseverance strength & suppleness of his arm, suffers itself to be wafted to the
Shore: Should he meet with a resistance too powerful to master that he cannot master, he will let go a part of his Tackle, & not suffer himself by his obstinacy to be pulled headlong into the Gulph. [while the .... of] a prostrate & broken-hearted people multitude [who, too happy
if they have their vegetation only now & then disturbed to be only now & then interrupted in their vegetation by the blasts of tyranny
or & the whirlwinds of caprice, follow obey with unresisting indifference listness obsequiousness the every sudden impulse] [of a
sudden movement that is impressed upon them,] are like a puny Minnow, fit only for the prey of Children yielding itself
a contemptible prey to the hook of the sated Sportsman. Thus is it the Glory of Politicians to be fishers of Men. facility takes away all
value from the conquest; no patience exercised, no powers display'd, no virtue fortified bright
by the test by the Trial. Such, Despotism, are thy triumphs! puppets )( Men Number relaxation list before & languor

Identifier: | JB/070/197/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 70.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	070	Main Headings	of laws in general
Folio number	197	Info in main headings field	scandal libels
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr motif] [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23312
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