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5 N. S. Wales

In this later case, circumstances were not little less favorable
than in the former one. Power and popularity were among the shields in both cases. In the case of the scarcity, if
though the assumption of the power would in any hands
be invidious, and in other hands odious and unpardonable,
the act done in exercise of it was popular [in
the extreme.] and besides that mere opinions and
arguments are not just objects of censure, and that
censure could not have been passed without reviving a overturning
a ministry the object of and reversing a
recent choice, the real object of censure would with
difficulty have been apprehended by the public mind.
Though an the act in itself illegal had been defended
on unconstitutional grounds — grounds as dangerously so
as any that could be conceived yet, at that price, famine,
or something that wore the appearance of it had been averted.
a censure under those circumstances would have been like
a censure passed on a general for gaining a victory won without
against orders. [The mind of the giddy multitude have not thought
enough for apprehending such distinctions.] True it is
that the self same thing that was done against law, might
equally have been done by law since there was time
enough for getting Parliament together if men had been willing
and to take it. But for distincti of for apprehending
such distinctions there is scarcely seldom strength enough in the
mind of the giddy multitude.

14
Circumstances
which in 1766
enabled 1st &c
to escape censure

Identifier: | JB/116/199/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	14
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	199	Info in main headings field	n. s. wales
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d5 / f42*
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[monogram] 1800]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	37732
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