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Book 1. Ch. 5
Of Frugality
12 pages.

Punishment an
evil to a criminal.
Reward to the honest
man who pays. We
should therefore be
frugal.

Whether reward
consist of money or
honour

Or Power

or Even exemptions
it increase the burthens
of others

If an exemption can
be grated without
expense it is an
exemption from
punishment

The evil of prodigality
is not confined to
diminishing the fund
of reward.
It causes real
services to be paid for
extravagantly

thus the evil is
perpetually accumulating

The man of talent
will feel this

Profusion of honours
deteriorates the stock
and produces pecuniary
expense


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A Reciage required
a pension

Honorary rewards
among the Greeks
and Romans were
personal

The Americans have
no hereditary
nobility

Republican governments
have generally been
frugal of every
thing but power

Specious arguments
may be framed
for liberality

What is superfluous
may be considered
as the fund of a
lottery as giving
birth to hope.

But this will not
justify the creation
or real evil

The lottery must also
be drawn before
services are obtained

Political reasons
may be assigned
for the arbitrary disposal
of reward

Then correctness belongs
not to the present
enquiry


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Comparative reasons
may be adduced

As between the
expence of a war
and the reward of
a favorite or the
building of a Palace

This used at the
Court of Louis 14.

Comparison may
also be made
between useless
expenditure and
burthensome taxes

The conclusion is
that all rewards
being costly none
should be thrown
away


Identifier: | JB/143/133/001
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Date_1

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Box

143

Main Headings

rationale of reward

Folio number

133

Info in main headings field

b. 1 ch. 5 of frugality 12 pages

Image

001

Titles

Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

Penner

richard smith

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Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

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48766

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