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1819 Aug. 18
Fallacies

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Ch. 2. Justice-beggars

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An instrument of no small usefulness in to the purposes advancement
of morality, public and private, would be a Table of appellatives
in which under the two heads eulogistic and dyslogistic,
added to the corresponding head neutral, all those
words which in this way are liable to be converted used as into
instruments of fallacy should be ranged.

S I hereby venture to the amusement recommend it to any one of those, who
to the love of mankind, or the desire of obtaining rearing the reputation
of it, add to a sufficient relish for such a task the requisite
leisure. Not only in the scale of importance utility, but in the
scale of difficulty, how much higher would such an
exercise stand that those dictionaries of synonyms indiscriminately
taken, which however are by no means
without their difficulty any more than without their use.

For the due composition of such a work, no logical acumen,
in no inconsiderable quantity, may be found necessary.

In some instances, correspondent to the eulogistic or
dyslogistic appellative, there it may tun out that the language
does not at present furnish any word that continues to
preserve its neutral sense. This may perhaps be found
to be the case with the abovementioned words stated as eulogistic,
adduced as examples of eulogistic appellatives: namely honour
and glory, dignity and liberality. In the case of liberality howsoever,
though when the act is exercised at the expence of the public the term depredation
may with strict propriety be applied to that same act,
yet the two terms the one dyslo eulogistic the other dyslogistic can not
with propriety be stated as synonymous: and so in the case instance of
dignity national dignity if on this occasion, as is so naturally and
frequently
frequently the case, it
should turn out that
an the act which had
been termed an act expression
of national dignity
was really an expression
of official and diplomatic
insolence, having for its object the plunging the nation into a needless and groundless war for the profit of those who called to have the conduct of it.

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Date_1	1819-08-18	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	104	Main Headings	fallacies
Folio number	401	Info in main headings field	fallacies
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::i&m [with prince of wales feathers above] 1818]]
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Corrections	peregrine bingham	Paper Produced in Year	1818
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