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1820 Feb. 8
Radicalism not dangerous

III Experience
II Ireland
(5)

Say what you will in favour of the interest of the many
you may be sure that Mr Hardy is for you; but you may ought to be
equally sure that he is against you. Parliament reform
is not only eligible but necessary: but then what is equally
necessary is that it should take place in any efficient, no
nor yet in any assignable shape. It is so necessary, that
it is matter of shame to government that it has not been
long ago established: but then it is matter of still greater
shame to any man who does not belong to Government
or even who does being to Government, so much as to propose it in any
such shape. Why, he is no better than a demagogue

I have been So large a quantity of ink and paper has then would scarcely have
been employed in printing the holding/giving a slight sketch Mr Hardy from the original by
Mr Hardy because even if not but that in holding who should point delineate/pourtray Mr Hardy
would not only merely pourtray Mr Hardy, but pourtray in his person Whiggism
but Whiggism on its is set out to best advantage. Whiggism
set out in its softest and most amiable colours.

It is not without But for this all comprehensiveness
Even then it is not without compunction that
this such levity as it may if such it should be stated has been used in speaking of
this gentleman author, from whose work so elegant performance work
so much entertainment and it is hoped so much instruction
has been reaped. [+] [+] at every turn the
hand thus employed
puts itself in a manner
pulled back and gutted
more or less gutted with
the reproach of ingratitude. Emperor Trojan and were not Never can they have been better matched
their Noble Lord patron and Honourable Geographer panegyrist Williams ever
having seen either, both each of them one a man might venture to
accomplished Gentlemen: both of them in private life amiable
both of them accomplished Gentlemen. But unhappily for mankind
an accomplished Gentlemen is one thing — a true lover of
the people or of any one people, a very different one.

It was not without
pleasure I read O'Learys's
panegyric, but it was
with much greater pleasure
I have read Mr Hardy's

Known to nobody; and
knowing nobody, I knew
not whether he be yet alone.
I knew not: and why should
I enquire? If he is, he
will find an exercise
for his disinterestedness, in thinking of the bitterness
these pages either as little bitterness asperity or that with which they come from are

Identifier: | JB/137/375/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 137.
Date_1	1820-02-05	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	137	Main Headings	radicalism not dangerous
Folio number	375	Info in main headings field	radicalism not dangerous
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] i&m 1818]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public		ID Number	47092
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