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23 Feby 1808

But though the Kings Chancellor like the King is
in his own proper person by a happy incapacity exempt from all imperfection
fortunately for the faculty of speech and writing that privilege does not in the one instance any more
than in the other, extend itself beyond the bounds by which
the all perfect person living mass of perfection is circumscribed. The King
when he chooses a servant, is liable to be ill served by
him: the King when he chooses an adviser, is liable
to be misadvised: the excellence of his Chancellor, being
after all but a borrowed lustre, is susceptible of liable to being tarnished
in the same way.

Like his royal master, the Chancellor has so
much to do, that as to this and that part of it, and t'other part he
must have others to do it for him: all that part those parts are
liable to be mismanaged.

The same work which were it the work of
the Chancellor would be superior to all intrusion, being
the work of some assistant or substitute, becomes is ever & acknowledged to be subject
to that test. Quâ the Kings, as the speech extend the
King's speech, neither falshood nor error can find
a place: but the same speech object being when regarded in a
different point of view seems to be the Minister's, both each of
those impediments is capable of being found in it, in
any quantity.

Identifier: | JB/091/197/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 91.
Date_1	1808-02-23	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	091	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	197	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	29193
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