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1 Sept 1806
Evidence Scotch Reform To its People

His atonement is yet to make. That the revelation the law received his
dignitaries such two of them their instances each of them by a new law.
The one the one of the sources of his own profit: the other encreased the value of his own patronage.

Ld Grenville has pledged himself to take to the Scotch law
may not, and English Barrister be admitted and ?

There are hopes Of Lord Erskine we need not be altogether without hope.
is a mixture. To the vices of his profession, if he has imbibed them he adds virtues which are his own.

After an After drinking so of exhausting the fluids fountains of spurious fame false glory, he may
stoop at last to draw betake himself, though it were to take a sip at the spring of desert, for lack of other aliment, the genuine original, to genuine.

After putting himself on his ascent to school to learn Equity, he
may not disdain to draw receive take though from a humble and obscure and humble
a source, a lesson of utility and justice.

After raising himself from indigence – notorious but not dishonourable indigence – to opulence by the beaten track – the indiscriminate
defence of right and wrong – after climbing to
the height of power by the same ladder – he may not
disdain
the fancy may take him, for he is a man of
fancy – to wander straggle into the path in search of novel
and creative honour, into the path of real merit.

After faltering praying, , upon the vitals substance
of the oppressor and the oppressed, a fit qualm of conscience
may take him – (for he is a man of conscience) to make
atonement, and dedicate devote the remainder of his splendid life
or at least a part of it, to the pure service of truth and
justice.

Reading or not reading, (for he is a man of reading) the book
of La on restitution (specific restitution individually
and in detail not being possible) he may
as so many have in former times endowed monasteries, and in better
times founded alms houses.

Waiting Looking for the consummation of all things (for he is a reader a devout
man and an interpreter of prophecies of prophecies and an interpreter thereof) it may occurr to him as a preparation
of no inappropriate virtues to lay aside the vizor
as no longer necessary or so much as useful
of hypocrisy.


Identifier: | JB/091/048/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 91.

Date_1

1806-09-01

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091

Main Headings

scotch reform

Folio number

048

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scotch reform to the people

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001

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Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

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Penner

jeremy bentham

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Corrections

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Notes public

ID Number

29044

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