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Hard Labour Bill Preface

and says that "he has also found it easier to censure
"than to correct; and suspects that any extensive
"reformation of the Statute-book would prove
"a work of much nicety and embarassment in the
"hands of even of those who possess a competent knowledge
"of the subject with the additional advantage
"of Parliamentary habits and talents."

That it is easier to censure than to correct we
all know well enough without needing a writer,
whose rare talents are capable of being so much
better employ'd, to be at the trouble to inform us.
But if indeed in matters of this nature it be difficult
(and certainly it is but too difficult) to
correct, it will hardly be the less difficult for any
thing that is said by writers of merit and authority
to magnify the notion of the difficulty. On the
contrary, be the difficulty what it may, this is the
way of all others to increase it. The number
of those adventurous and eccentric spirits who unbidden and unpaid
devote themselves to the interests of the service
of their country in this most arduous line of service duty
is not so great, the this patriot band is not so
great numerous, as to need any discouragement to make it
less so.

I know not to be considered for doubting upon words:
syllables from sets as from will have their

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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	004	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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