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To continue So far so well. In another instance
In England if one wasto judge from a late example
and I am sorry to say a late one, the policy of the
the ascetic policy seems to be should be at present in full vigour.
legislature, [if policy was at all in question] if policy
it can be called, was the reverse of every thing that has
been mentioned hitherto
To continue the plan of ascetic policy that
is in need to have recourse to suppositions which
may appear unnatural far-fetched , or to suppositions proposals propositions
which by reason of their consistency may will appear ridiculous.
In England to judge from a late very recent example
the same policy seems to flourish continues in a certain line at leastat present in
full vigour. In the sessions of 1781 an act was
passed for the express purpose of excluding the people
from "amusement". Stat. 21. G. 3. c. 49
I should rather have said from
all amusement that was not sensual: for as to the
[amusement of drinking it leavescare is taken by ] special provision to leave is made for leaving it drinking that is left upon the same footing as before:
and the only care concern solicitude of the legislator is that whatever
money a man has to spend on the day in
question, videlicet the Lord's day, he may spend
in drinking and nothing else: for if more is taken
for liquor than the liquor is worth, a conclusion is
drawn that amusement is entertainment of some other kind, that amusement is really meant to be sold
will rather if than liquor, §2. and punishment is denounced accordingly.
In prohibiting placing out of men's reach, snatching out of men's
hands

This is one of the two objects purposes professed by the act: the other
which consists in preventing men from explaining texts
of

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	065	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f13 / f14 / f15 / f16
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27590
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