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Fallacies Preface

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Look at Swift's Directions to Servants, you will find them
indeed, and wit indeed, from beginning to end, so many directions for
doing mischief. But, of the several practices there brought
to view, so palpable and in many some instances so enormous
is the mischief with which they are pregnant, that by no man,
who has ever read a page of them together could ever
suppose, for two moments together entertain themselves
any such supposition be entertained, as that the advice
there given was to be given in his guide any other design, than that of its being interpreted by being other rules
than the rule of contraries. yet. But when we look Not so in that work of
at the deceptitous practices recommended for adoption by
Gerard Hamilton. Viewing the deceptious practices so coolly
and didactically recommended by him for adoption, we
shall find, we shall find them all along and undistinguishing
by intermixt with a set of other directions, by which, if by
the bulk of the whole mass considered, no great quantity
of useful information honest and generally useful information
is afforded by them, are at any rate free from
that taint of cool rhetorical political profligacy which in so conspicuous
those which are here extracted will be found so conspicuous.

When by Swift advice is advice is given
to servants to employ loaves as candlesticks to save wear and
tear of brass ones seriousness can not for a moment be
suspected: but as little can the opposite of it be suspected, whereas
by Gerard Hamilton (No 429, p.99) "In order to attack
what others have said, or to defend what you have said,"
you are advised to "either omitt a word or add one; or else
"change one word for another, a little softer or stronger, as
"may suit your purpose.

Identifier: | JB/104/030/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 104.
Date_1	1819-08-10	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	104	Main Headings	fallacies
Folio number	030	Info in main headings field	fallacies preface
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	john dickinson & c<…> 1813
Marginals		Paper Producer	a. levy
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1813
Notes public		ID Number	34001
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