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Panopt. Contract Plan.
loses nothing by being transferred, if the case were so
out of his hands into their's. If he is, how comes he thus
to deliver the people over for ever to the tormentors? Suppose
the farmers contrary to in contradiction to their
own interest to take advantage of a time of greatest
exigency in order to extort from the sovereign a set
of improper revenue auxiliary laws. What is the sovereign about
all his life long, and what is become of his boasted
superiority of tenderness? These greatest exigencies do they subsist always? are they for ever in
existence?
All they had been used to for the small talk of Paris This
Dr was exposing was copying instead of examining Copying
instead of examining, he raises draws general propositions
out of particulars which as far as they are true, were peculiar to France.
Lastly comes a passage which though it be nothing
to the purpose of the argument, points out the source of the prejudice,
and helps to account for the footing it has
obtained. To a man of Adam Smith's sagacity, instead
of serving as a proof that the farming system
deserves the odium it has incurred, it ought to have
excited served as a presumption of a very strong suspicion to the contrary, by
shewing how easy it was for it to incurr sep odium
without having deserved it.
Identifier: | JB/119/028/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 119.
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panopticon; rationale of reward |
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contract panopt. contract plan |
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::floyd & co [britannia with shield emblem]]] |
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arthur young |
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