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1819 Aug. 24
Fallacies
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Prefat
§. Offer to disapprovers
But as to the design in which it was written — the
fact is — such I declare it to be, taking my chance as every
man must in the like case do, for such credence as, in
the eyes of each reader, the declaration may appear entitled
to — the fact is — that as to the considerable
proportion of them the arguments in question if such they
may be called had presented themselves to my mind many
and many a year before the idea of any such charge as parliamentary
reform, or at any rate any such opinion
as the opinion of a demand for it, had presented itself:
in their tendency the arguments being in their tendency
the exclusion of all ulterior good, as such, whatsoever it might might be
consist of its shape: and in respect of their the shape and having
this for their common character, namely irrelevancy.
If then so it should be, that In the eyes of whatsoever every reader of it may
therefore, if in every If then, in the eyes of any reader
it should appear that such is really their tendency,
and such accordingly their shape and character, if an the consequence
surely will be — that in the eyes of every such reader — instead of an argument
against the utility of this work, the observation will be deemed
to afford an argument — an additional and most irrepressible
body of argument in favour of that much so extensively
and so naturally dreaded and reprobated change.
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