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31 Jany 1808
on Ld Eldon's Bill

he Stomach calculated to sharpen the existence of the
may be applied with peculiar advantage, by those
whose of instances than possess their or whose disqualifies them from putting
their names upon the test.

But Were it not for this, that attrition sollicitude
for the maintenance preservation of dignified repose, which in the Court
of Sessions
with such perfect unquestionable sincerity
and such unaffected simplicity, has in the Court of Sessions
been, acknowledged by the highest authority, acknowledged
and declared to be the predominant prominent if not the only perception
of action, would be so, and without any exception,
in a still higher sphere.

While When Where such is the object, to blow up the coals of
contention – an office will in public life be an office
as useful at least, howsoever to the individual unprofitable,
as in private it is acknowledged to be
base and mischievous and dishonourable. In this
line of service whatsoever lay in the way presented itself
as capable of being contributed by so weak a hand
as that which has been this long addressing itself
to Your Lordship, Your Lordship will acknowledge
has not been grudged.

The abuses in of government constitute in part
at least, the patrimony of those whom good or its fortune
awaits them with a share in it. By a sort of synecdoche
favour have to many a vulgar eye to vulgar rhetoric this part is in
value equal to the whole.

But as in former ages, by a sometimes accelerated
sometimes retarded but scarce ever altogether uninterrupted course
of the territorial part of the patrimony of the crown
was reduced from the original mountain to the molehill we see left,
so by this in more enlightened and happier times, by the
successive and alternating
sacrifices, which
in the course of
political warefare the
possessors of power for the
time being find themselves
pressed and obliged to
make the abusive
part of the patrimony,
that which composed of plunder in various shapes from various sources and various disguises, composed in great measure of profit in a comparatively small occurrence
extracted out of affliction and distress produced for the purpose upon a large scale, seem happily for mankind, to be destined by degrees
to submitt a little , or a little or , to the same fate.


Identifier: | JB/091/253/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 91.

Date_1

1808-01-31

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

091

Main Headings

scotch reform

Folio number

253

Info in main headings field

on ld eldons bill

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

c4

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

th 1806

Marginals

Paper Producer

andre morellet

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1806

Notes public

ID Number

29249

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