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6 Feby. 1811 26

Fallacies

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Exceptions to this hard heartedness, are not near so many as
excuses are to papists. If a single one be found in a whole age
let that age itself be set down for an extraordinary one
But the character of the species is not to be taken from the the minor
part of it

Though a blessing upon
some a lawyer of this
kind is a monster among
lawyers

Look at the rug mat look at the rug, or the mat on which the cat is
suckling and caressing her young brood: what
gentleness! what tenderness! While these manifestations
of the purest love are going forward, should some hapless
mouse peep out of its hole — how do the eyes
of the tender mother now flash fire! Should the ever
ready paw have now succeeded in cutting off the
retreat imprudent adventurer where is now all thus tenderness, that gentleness.
The agonies of the helpless animal are matter use
now not of as in the lawyer's case of matter of
simple indefference, but of positive delight and
exultation.

When therefore a catalogue is making up of
the virtues that adorn this or that have adorned any the breast
of this or that departed sage, (for if living one let
him speak to whom prosperity or ruin are matters
of indifference) all any thing that savours of a
wish (if in such a wish there be any thing that
have done with propriety the name of virtue) to witness
the diminution of any of those miseries which
his factitious delay and expence, or
needless death or imprisonment for those cause, must will
be left out of that list, if the characters any such
attribute as truth remains to it be found in it.

The Hale's, the Somers, the Hardwiches all virtuous all honourable: but — with this
qualification must their eulogy be understood, if any
more truth be to be left to it than is to be found in the obituary of a Magician.

Cut the manch tree under the shade of which they and theirs grow fat, while clerks and sailors are excoriated?
Oh yes, now and then when the sufferers are found . Cut off? but with what instrument? with the axe? Oh no A cut: but with the
pruning knife.

Identifier: | JB/104/351/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 104.
Date_1	1811-02-06	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	104	Main Headings	fallacies
Folio number	351	Info in main headings field	fallacies
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d26 / e26
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals		Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections	peregrine bingham	Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	34322
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