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1810
Parly Reform

Services not occasional, or 2. habitual, or official.

Given in reward for pubic service? – how can that be?
how can that be when nothing at all is to be done for it?

§. 2. Sinecures never are given as rewards for public service

Sinecures, I have said already it has been observed one may venture to say never are given
as rewards for public service. I had almost said they
never can be. This might be rather too much to say: but
which is not too much is – that there is something
in their nature which renders them in a radically punitive
degree unapt unfit for being thus properly honestly disposed of.

Pay a man by a pension – pay a man by
a sum in the shape of a capital sum paid – the
reward may be proportioned to the service with the utmost
nicety. Pay him by a sinecure the chances
against its being properly proportioned are as infinity
to one.

In the first place, except by some rare accident, there is no such thing to be had.
Pensions are always to be had: the pension funds, of which
there is so happily an abundance, are ready to be drawn are ready to yield
their encrease as ever was the pump at Aldgate. upon at all times. Like the Orange tree the Pension
tree is always ever in flower always in fruit, and that the fruit
always ready to be gathered. From the Sinecure tree
you can get nothing but windfalls. Would you give
the tree a shake, and give encrease or speed to any of the windfalls?
Look yonder there grows stands Tyburn tree, ready to receive
and keep you, till you yourself become a windfall for the crows. you till the crows restore you among their windfalls.

Identifier: | JB/147/141/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
Date_1	1810-01-03	Marginal Summary Numbering	8 or 1 - 9 or 2
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	141	Info in main headings field	Parly Reform
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	C1 / D4 / E1
Penner		Watermarks	TH 1806
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer	Andre Morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	49366
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