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of this kind, and the circumstance of it's being printed before instead
of after it's being introduced in form.

There is one passage more in the same paragraph
which I must confess I had rather not have seen,
I mean that which disclaims "any disposition to
"either to propose or promote novelties in the executive
"justice of the nation."† † Preface p.5. – I shall be understood,
I hope, to refer solely to what I apprehend
may be the effects, and by no means to
the intention of this passage, if I venture to observe
that discourses of this stamp complexion can never
possibly upon the whole do good, and may not improbably do
harm.

The meaning of the passage is not very
explicit: [] but the tendency of it [in the
way in which it is natural to understand it] is
seems to be to throw a stumbling-block in the way of political
improvements. As to this motive which by it is
[disclaiming] thinks the paragraph thought proper to disclaim, I must confess I
see not with what propriety it contrasts with those
others which in the same breath it is thought not
improper to avow. These are – "a sense of public
"duty", and "a wish to facilitate a business of
"much national expediency". But how any "business
"of much national expediency" that never was proposed
before, is to be facilitated or carried on but
by "a disposition to promote novelties" is more than
I am able to conceive. A wish then "to facilitate
a

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	119	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	002	Info in main headings field	hard-labour bill preface
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10 / f11 / f12
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::r williams [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	c. hamilton
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	39513
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