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C
Disaffection
-lived: your subjects are men, and as such may be too ready to offend you; you yourself are but a man, and as such
you may be too ready to take offence. When a sovereign is
exasperated, who can answer what bounds he will set to
his revenge. If
If thetask business of meting out and the quantity of measure of punishment be [left to the very whose passion prompts men to and all measure] committed be committed to passions which know no measure, who can answer for be for its being conformable to their standard of reason and utility? Now then is the time to set those bounds, to set the establishment of which would may at any other time be inaproacheable.
Be resolute: and by one generous effort of self-
denial lay yourself under that glorious
disability the choicest attribute of the all-perfect being
whom you represent and whom you would wish to
imitate [whose representative you are and
whose imitation you ought to ] the want of power
to do wrong.
Identifier: | JB/072/058/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 72.
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disaffection |
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] pro patria [with motif]]] |
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