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1819 March 28
To Erskine

II. Whig Merits

Had I a Revolution to make, I had Were I in circumstances to disposed to make Revolutions, I had much rather
make in much it should be for the heaving out sending off, a couple of dozen of Office
Clerks to live without fortunes, than for sending three and
twenty Right Honourables and Honourables to live upon
their fortunes.

Personal connection of friendship and near relationship
and matchless public merit out of the question, my sympathy
saves itself a world of trouble [in measuring and
weighing] by g putting itself under the governance
of the numerator table. Were a choice to be made of
persons to be saved from drowning, I should be twice as
well pleased to save two Kings as to save one beggar, but I should
be twice as well pleased to save two beggars as one
king. King James the second says the h King James the second when in a storm took e care
of his two dogs, leaving his two-legged subjects to take their
chance: for my part, though in such a case I should not regard myself
warranted in doing as I pleased, I should have much more
pleasure in saving of any one dog than any one such James.

Identifier: | JB/104/444/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 104.
Date_1	1819-03-28	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	104	Main Headings	fallacies
Folio number	444	Info in main headings field	to erskine
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::i&m [with prince of wales feathers above] 1816]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1816
Notes public		ID Number	34415
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