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Indirect

Misrule

state in which it is given: if not so, yet it may
suggest hints to others who may improve upon him:
and if it reaches not the approbation of the minister
directly & upon the spot, it may directly in its rough draft
it may hereafter when corrected , developped
or adorned. Instruction thus scatterd abroad is a
seed which then thus scatterd abroad may produce
good fruit though not gatherd in till years after it is
sown.

"Oh but I know every thing that there is any
"use in knowing. my judgment is better than that
"of all the rest of the world put together: my imagination invention embraces the bounds of possibility. I have
"no need of being either informed or advised by
"or suggested to by any body." — So may the minister
say of himself: but is it reasonable would his
master do be in the right to credit him? The sovereign has
every possible degree of discernment that human
eyes can have: be it so: but still the best he
can have done is to have made the best most successful wisest choice out of
the few candidates whom chance the accidents of
birth and fortune & situation have thrown in his way.
The master then it seems not unreasonable to hope, may
think it possible for him to err. To an unprejudiced
observer it will appear that in a nation enlightend
as are most of the nations in modern Europe
the















Identifier: | JB/087/107/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

087

Main Headings

indirect legislation

Folio number

107

Info in main headings field

indirect

Image

002

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f1 / / / f4

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

27632

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