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1820 Jan.y 21
Radicalism not dangerous

III. Experience
II. Ireland
(2) §.3. Corruption general

seat

It is in the very nature of man and man will has been
or will be out of it — that the more power he has, the more
violently outrageously he will be disposed to abuse it. Not a Statesman
perhaps who on some occasion or other did not bear give
the testimony of his confession to this truth. Yet among them all
more scarce will you find the man who will be subscribe to or
so much as endure the inaction of the immediate practical
inference: namely have in the hands of every man the
smallest quantity poss possible that can be left in them consistently with security public
and private with security for existing property — property in
vested expectancy included.

[+] the more power in
what change or by what
means he can possess
office — factitious dignity
or opulence

When the people being a force are upon the look out for
it a disposition to surrender borough- influence
is professed by multitudes. In how many instances
secured? [Ask Hardy] — in not so much as an one single one.

Identifier: | JB/137/293/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 137.
Date_1	1820-01-21	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	137	Main Headings	radicalism not dangerous
Folio number	293	Info in main headings field	radicalism not dangerous
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] i&m 1816]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1816
Notes public		ID Number	47010
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