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5

Indirect

Imagination

I would never reject instruction though it came
from my bitterest enemies. council,
Inquisition, Star-chamber, I would lay them all under contribution,
I would pick out of them whatever good
ideas I could find, regardless whence it came. I would
pick up a diamond wherever I could find it happen'd to see it ,
with whatever filth it might happen to be encompassed.]
An Assassins uses pistols to committ murder
with: is that any reason why I should not
make use of them to defend myself?

Whatever else a Protestant may dispute
with Catholics the conductors of the Catholic religion , he will not hardly dispute their title to the
art of practising [with success] upon the imaginations
of the people, and moulding them to their purposes.
Stiling them Accusing them with being children of this world he will allow at the same time
however that in this their generation they have shew'd themselves
wiser than the children of light. In what
concerns the [affair of] scenery at least I make
no doubt but very good hints might be taken
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Identifier: | JB/087/138/001
"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

138

Info in main headings field

indirect

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f5 / f6 / f7 / f8

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

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

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

27663

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