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20 July 1802 + 19
the lot of both considered together presents to Compared together: the false experiment by the two classes 2
present a strange and whimsical picture of a sort of proven equality:
those who the in favour of no right,
and those in favour of no right enterprize without right, being, almost exactly
equal; the confusion of government befriending
the subject in almost exactly the same proportion as its justice + + Equality is Equity, says a maxim we sometimes hear of among lawyers: but till this ought whether this be a case for the application of it, is a practice where in question which it may be left with equal confidence to those who are fondest of equality, and those who are most averse to it. to prominance.
Another thing that appears by this offends but the fate given
born into first by the particularly Another general proposition, to the proof of which more
is contributed by that former statement than by the present,
is, — that the labouring
of departure, though after being having been announced to all would be confined
to so many, who had right, it was refused was by no means refused to all. But
these rather by these distinctions the breach of public faith is rather
aggravated than alleviated. A general change might
have been supposed to have been caused, and by
being caused justified, by some general principles:
but by distinctions established in such numbers
and without any assigned or discoverable cause, all principle
was abjured in a manner abjured.
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