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Indirect

Misrule

Narrowing despotism

§ Narrowing the sphere of despotic influence
A drunken man says Ld Coke

A dur drunken man says Lord Coke is
a voluntary devil. [A pensioner during he might in
like manner have defined a voluntary slave.]
Upon the p the same plan With at least equal propriety he might have defined
a pensioner during pleasure a voluntary slave. [The
latter definition as well as however not less than the former requires certain
provisions to make it just reduce it to within the bounds of justice truth: that the pension]
It must be remember'd always however that there are degrees
of slavery: and that the degree of slavery in this
case will depend on the ratio which the amount
of the pension bears to the rest of a man's income. means.
It must be remember'd also that slavery degree of subjection depends
not solely upon the outward force external impulse , but upon the
inward temper of the mind powers of resistance : [Aesop and Epictetus
bore the name of slaves.] Slavery in its ugliest form
could not break the mind of Epictetus. That generous
which Recent have discover'd
virtues of as tough a grain as any that ever
grew on Grecian soil: but political calculations
must be governed determined not by the few but by the many.
It

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	112	Info in main headings field	indirect
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	27637
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