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1819 Nov. 23

Radicalism not

3 §.3. III. Moveables

29
Needless to go into
the other branches
of productive stock,
to show how, at
division proceeded,
value would fly
before it.
So in case of household
furniture.

After what has been said, it can not surely not be needful
carry on conduct to the any further on other through all the several other varieties of productive to carry on the exposition
through the field
of details much further;
to pursue the operation

stock or and or those of houshold furniture, to shew, under each head,
how as division advanced, value would fly before it.
Of every imaginable article, capable of being ran under
the head of luxuries, the value would, long before the
commencement of the partition division have compleatly evaporated. gone off . Diamonds
and pearls would not be better worth picking off a worth more to the
dunghill by the lady than by the cook: Pictures, antique Statues and black letter books; Topiary, Hook and Constion: Price applied and
Melons;
body than to the Picture; better and
antique Statues ; would not lose their value quite so compleatly. altogether
The leaves of the Book, which our Lord even form another Lord at the price of between £2,000
and £3,000,
books would help to light fromof the parties
or keep alive a fire; the picture paid for teller day at the price of £10,000 would by the oil
and canvas must serve for a time to keep it burning: though not so long as the frame, which
would accordingly rise
above it in value:
upon: the statues
if at the ford ford of in a brook, the water was found too deep, the
Venus of Medicis, if she were here near enough at hand
might, in the character of a Water serve for a stepping-stone: The wines would
rank with small beer; the pine-apples with cyder-apples
Axminster carpets would cut up into coats and trousers.
Of all the paper of books, weight for weight, the value
would be equal to that of printed books: yielding the most ordinary
square piano, yielding as it would do more heat would be worth more than all the
Cartoons put together. [+] Of Silks and Velvets, measure for measure and value [+] Ostrich feathers
being too large for
for beds would yield
such to poultry
feathers.


would be directly as the warmth, and inversely in the fineness.
-ness. As to hardening of all sorts though together, unbrittle to all Though not so prod gravel, hard were of all
shape and brittle in metal and in the shine, which material and artificial,
though not so good as gravel, yet if near at hand while gravel was at a certain distance if made which gravel distance, half and
it might take the place of the more apt material, and help to mind the roads. These uses are mentioned, but exaggeration
be imputed, if, in cases such as the above, all value were
said to be destroyed.

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Of all luxuries the
value would fly off
in smoke.
1. Diamonds
1. Precious stones and
pearls.
2. Pictures, scarce
books and antiques
nor fewel alone
would be valuable
Statues might be stepping
stones.
Pine apples would be
as syder apples
Axminster carpets
trousers.
For fewel a piano would
be worth all the Customs.

Silks and Velvets not
so good as better wearing
stuffs.
Fine hard ware would
mend road
Ostrich feathers.
better
To say destruction in these cases would be exaggeration: therefore are mentioned.



Identifier: | JB/137/113/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 137.

Date_1

1819-11-23

Marginal Summary Numbering

29-30

Box

137

Main Headings

radicalism not dangerous

Folio number

113

Info in main headings field

radicalism not

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

e3

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] i&m 1818]]

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

arthur wellesley, duke of wellington

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1818

Notes public

ID Number

46830

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