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6 C Diss. Of Prodigality in Trustees

more may come under the incapacitating
of the law against prodigality: for great genius is
apt to disdain the minutiae of family concerns.

Answers. To this there are three four answers. 1. That
howsov howsoever it may be at the institution of
commonwealths, yet when they are once settled and
the business of government is put into a certain
train, there needs not any extraordinary
effort of genius to carry it on. Solid understanding
instructed by experience is much more indisputably
requisite: and howsoever it may be with
genius, there seems not to be any natural connection
between a prodigality and a pr that its weakness
of mind which tends to suffers a man to fall into prodigality, and that
strength of mind which gives solidity to the
understanding. 2. That great talents, coinciding
with great power are in such circumstances
more likely to do good than harm. For the
effect of great talents is to make a man more
able to effect his purposes of whatever nature carry into execution his purposes of all sorts
they be, good and bad alike. Now the effect of
the situation in question is to make a man
more likely as we have seen to form bad designs than he was before,
the self regarding motives acting upon him with greater force To p.8. at top

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	072	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	080	Info in main headings field	of prodigality in trustees
Image	002	Titles	notes
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::s. lay [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	alexander mavrokordatos
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23697
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