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III Experience
II Ireland
12 §.6. Iron age returned
Amongst the evils inseparable from the monarchy in which
at all times will remain incontestable and is now
begin to be more and more extensively perceived recognised/achieved and acknowledged
is the effect it has on the subversion dep degree to
which it operates on towards the subversion of morality: the prodigious
the boundless extent to which under the name of gratitude,
the appellation and promise of virtue is claimed by and given to the
most sordid selfishness. Generals on the current
The corruption is generous or merciful virtuous with full of generosity to traders the
corrupted functionary traders of the people grateful with gratitude, and
between these her virtues it is that the people are oppressed squeezed
and pillaged
For now a cloak or a varnish for all this
vice falsehood insincerity in all its forms is
in every part at work. And thus it is and hence it is
that whenever Monarchy reigns vice is triumphant:
Monarch and Vice are one no thrones are let stand
to the term belongs or even can stand without vice for the support of it.
To the throne appertains that dignity for the support of
which mercy is asked for without , without
mercy and without them: the being the
mere deputy, and the deputy the
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jeremy bentham |
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arthur wellesley, duke of wellington |
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