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Forfeiture of Reputation.

with a man of ordinary merit and condition; it would not
put his reputation upon so low a footing as that to which
a man of ordinary merit and reputation would be reduced
by the slightest instance of moral or political delinquency.
What they have in view is the acquisition, if
one may so term it, of a certain share of ill reputation,
the quantity of which they view in a confused manner
as if it were determinate and consisted of all the ill
reputation a man could possibly acquire. But this, it is
plain if never can do, at least in the cases to which they
apply it. For they speak of such an event as if it could
be and commonly were the effect of a simple instance of
delinquency; for instance a robbery or ordinary murder.
This, it is plain, it can never be [the case] unless it should
be thought maintained that an act of parricide for example would
not make a man worse looked upon than he was before
after having committed only a robbery or ordinary murder.
It

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	24-25
Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	112	Info in main headings field	forfeiture of reputation
Image	004	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f25 / f26 / f27 / f28
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	caroline fox
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	48329
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