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23 July 1810 23
Fallacies
Ch. Cause and Obstacle
§. Universities I. Virtue
§. 1. Virtue. Universities
23 or 2
On the Bench the
habit of dealing
by falshood and
perjury according to
the of sinister
interest:
on the one hand
punishing it; & on
the other, permitting,
rewarding, compelling
it
Others in the character situation of Judges, punishing falshood
[in its several forms and all its various applications]
when any thing is to be got or nothing is to
be lost by punishing it, rewarding it where any
thing is to be got by rewarding it, inforcing it by
punishment annexed to the non-commission of
it where any thing is to be got by thus enforcing
it, and even practising it practising it without measure and without shame, when money, or
power the source of money is to be got by practising
it.
23 or 2(a)
Per Scotch Reform:
and even Blackstone
for the application made of
falshood under the
name of fiction to
the purpose of
power: also money
though on that he is silent
Note (a)
(a) See Scotch Reform Lett. 1. title Rosen Mendacity — licence — and
see even Blackstones Commentaries on the scanty account few and loose
he gives hints he gives of fiction and the use made of it for
the purpose of gaining power on which he is tolerable
explicit not to speak of money on the subject of which
he maintains a decent and prudent silence.
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