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on my side: or death or ill health rids me of an opponent's
vote, and doubles the value of my own. The
last ship is sailed for England. I am a cautious
and afraid
make a law. I am a cautious and
a prudent man. I make it only for a year:
it is only a manner of experiment. Half a
year after the first ship sails, I transmitt
the law to England; it takes six months in its
passage: the King disapproves the law and
kills it with his negative: in half a year more
the act of disallowance comes from England: this is
1-1/2 year after the birth of the law: but half
a year before it is thus slain, it has died a
natural death: it has fulfilled completed the term prescribed
for its continuance. In the mean time
finding the good effects of it by experience, I
pass another law to the same time or the same
or if that be too much to the same effect
as the foregoing: but has not begotten in me
that presumption which it might in the breast of
another man: my caution is persevering. I give
the second law the same short-lived continuance
as the first. In due time comes the disallowance
of




Identifier: | JB/100/010/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 100.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

100

Main Headings

influence of time and place

Folio number

010

Info in main headings field

place and time

Image

002

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f1 / f2 / f3 / f4

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

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

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

32026

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