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25 Mar 1809
Press
1. Mischief on to hatred or : ultimately
to ill .
2. Instrument discourse or quasi ad .
3. in event of discourse – express assertion or insinuation
4. Party wronged an individual or class.
1. Wrongful Defamation – Synonymous expressions – Wrongful
Slander or Slandering – Slanderous aspersions – aspersions imputation, insinuation
2. Wrongful Vituperation – Synonymous expression – Wrongful
and opprobrious discourse – or verbal abuse – Wrongful
Invective revilement – vilification
3. Wrongful and assault assaultment – Synonymous
Wrongful Corporal insult – Bodily insult
Wrongful and – Synonymous
expressions Wrongful Denuntiation of assault
Wrongful Threats of corporal personor personal insult.
In all these four distinguishable ways may a
wound be inflicted on reputation. In the two first
cases reputation alone is the object of the injury:
in the two latter it is principally through through the medium
of the threatened injury to the person that the reputation
is affected.
In all these four cases except the third, a class of persons classes as well
as are as well as individuals are capable of being
taken for the objects of the off wrong: Individuals
alone and of those classes the members may in each case
be either determinate or indeterminate.
For the purpose of engaging inducing government to break its
faith engagement and cheat them of their money, purchasers of
government annuitants have sometimes been called
bloodsuckers: soldiers military men have at other times been called
. A man may say I will kick or spit
upon every government annuitant and every soldier
I meet with: and this without being either the greatest
foot or the weakest man that ever walked over earth without
a keeper: since if it be true that an
individual
going beyond him
in one or other of those times
of excellence has been discovered by the optics of a Great Law Officer and a noble Lord Chief Justice.
Identifier: | JB/118/432/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
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1812-09-10 |
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118 |
panopticon |
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432 |
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002 |
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correspondence |
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recto |
b7 / e2 / e7 |
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jeremy bentham |
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draft; not included in letter 2190, vol. 8 |
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