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1819. June 29.
To Erskine
Lett.7. Whigs AntiReformistS.5.Pos.4. Whig Excellence
or 8
Vor Whigus est
quis? quoth A. to
himself. An
1. Non est invent
2. Nemo
3. Nobody knows
nobody need care
Vir bonus est quis? who is a good man was the question put to himself by
Horace: he had found the answer and he returned it. Vir Whigus
est quis? is the question that your Lordships antagonist Mr
H. has put to himself been at the pains of putting to himself
After tolina course of toil and research toilings and wanderings through which unless
it be a reputed Whig or as they say of Quakers are of the people
called Whigs, the reader will not find it experience much fatigue
in following him, the only answer he can find is
in effect of the learned language of judicial procedure a non invention
in the learned language of Oxford Graduation procedure or
nemo s suit: in the language of a plain plain English Englishman
nobody knows, nobody to which may by this time now at least
be added - nobody need care.
or 9
When therefore
a Whig was mentioned
what was meant
was one who at the
moment appeared
such
When therefore In speaking therefore I spoke as above I spoke of a
Whig and so forth at I all I meant - all I could
mean even a man who at the moment appeared to
them in that character; for as to his being what in this
respect he appeared to be or if he really were each money
to so to be for two dogs together, it was rather too much to be
expected.
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] i&m 1818]] |
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arthur wellesley, duke of wellington |
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