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A View of the Hard-labour Bill.

that in omitting to take the measures usually taken
for circulating publications among the people, he acted,
as of course, under the influence of Parliamentary
habits. For this publication I am speaking of has
nothing to distinguish it from Bills printed of in
course for the members of the House, except the
Preface (which must ever distinguish it with
advantage from among all publications of this kind) and
the circumstance of it's being printed before, instead
of after, its 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 either"
"to propose or promote novelties in the executive"
"justice of the nation."+— I shall be understood,
+Preface p. 5.
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 upon the whole do good,
and may not improbably do harm.

The meaning of this passage is not very explicit:
but the tendency of it (in the way in which it is
natural to understand it) seems to be, to throw

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Folio number	006	Info in main headings field	a view of the hard-labour bill preface
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Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] propatria [britannia motif]]]
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