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1819 Aug. 16 10
Fallacies

Ch. Logical High fliers
§.2. Exposure

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16 or 8 continued

3. Among the features of the Constitution, along with the good ones
we may have likewise, supposing it possible there should be
any, all the bad ones: and thus in the word Constitution we have another cloak for
the bad ones: and another sacred object of the reformist's
enmity.

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4. So, English Institutions.
The looser the
import, the better the
cloak. By English
it is not practically
narrowed: English being the
only abuses a cover
is wanted for: and
English prejudices are
called on: by to an
Englishman nothing
English ought to be
bad. Seen thus has
proper an object for
inanity is he who
fancies any thing bad
in any English institution

4. Among the fruits or works of Government, Law, and the
Constitution are Institutions: and if the import belonging to that
word is more or less loose and therefore occasionally comprehensive, it serves but the better for a
cloak. By the limitative adjunct English the amplitude of the cloak is
not to any practical purpose narrowed: for such abuses as
are English are the only abuses for which any cover is in demand.
and by the word English thus employed intimation is given to
every true Englishman that nothing that is English can be
short of perfection, consequently that among English institutions
there can not be any bad ones. Thus supposing there were any,
it is manifest how excellent a cover for them these words English
Institution would make: and how proper an object for enmity
he is who by indication given of any thing that is amiss in
any Eng institution that can be called an English one demonstrates
himself an enemy to those objects to which, whatever they are or may be no attachment
can be too undiscriminating, too blind, or too fond.—

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Date_1	1819-08-16	Marginal Summary Numbering	16 or 8 continued - 17 or 9
Box	104	Main Headings	fallacies
Folio number	287	Info in main headings field	fallacies
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d10 / e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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