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8 May 1802
Inessentialia?
Dispensing power
Quere
forcing himself once more upon a Master, whose patience
he had worn out by so many years of hereditary
and inbred insolence, an adherent, whom he had
thus bought in secret should, with the colours of independence
flying upon his stand up and
move thanks to him for services which a man
chosen by lot into his place would have rendered
as well as he?
In speaking of a sacrifice of this sort as
but a sort of transaction but too natural, I
speak of the simple sacrifice. The filth turpitude
with which Your Lordship has seen it accompanied,
the enormous stupendous immutable pile of fraud and falshood:
is a circumstance which I am ready to admitt
as well as to hope may be regarded as peculiar to the individuals.
But laying aside of simply , and separated from all this mass of aggravations
but the misconduct supposited in ideas from its
matchless aggravations the species of misconduct is I doubt but too natural
to the species of men and the place. For let it not And from these
pass unnoticed aggravations the cure would actually be clear in all future instances. For – let it not pass unnoticed –
escape notice it was only for want of the security
afforded by an unquestioned precedent, that the
expence of all this turpitude was incurred: that
sanction established, the sort of print then was only object for the carrying of accomplishment of which in that past instance
covered by dint of contamination on that part instance all that contamination was looked upon as an more than
necessary, may, in all future instances, be covered compassed by hands
comparatively pure. In this way – though in a sense
somewhat varied from the original one – may the French
proverb be looked upon on this occasion as realized –
Ce n'est qui le premier pas qui conte.
Identifier: | JB/121/358/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 121.
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Inessentialia Dispensing power |
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"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.
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[[notes_public::Quere [note in Bentham's hand]]] |
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