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4 Feb 1810
Sinecures

Marlbrough a great General but a to act forgetful
of self: of courting service he would alluded
Majesty in his at that time his wife attended the Queen

A man for whom the £500 could have sufficed gets the £33,000,
why? because that has just dropt and when any other way is
uncertain.

So far from contributing to the encouragement of to promote the rendering of public
– real and meritorious public service, so far as they have
any influence on it in relation to it so far they tend their tendency to prevent the rendering
it. Emolument in this shape is to be found indeed in the
smallest masses: in masses⊞ ⊞ which though when added to others are not too small for a Lord, would of themselves be each of them too small to afford subsistence keep life in the body for
of a drummer or a little boy. On the other hand there are
others, the annual amount of which, when once it comes in
hand, exceeds by several times over far whatsoever the annual amount
of whatsoever has ever been thought fit to be given in the
shape name of reward in the declared shape of a pension to any the
most transcendent and universally acknowledged merit in
any line of service. Whatsoever be the reward given to
a man for real service – the value of that reward is lessened
– lessened in his own eyes lessened in the eyes of the public,
be reward to a still greater or more but to an equal
amount or be anything more to an equal amount given for
in waste and without service.

When the labourers in the parable – the labourers
who had come early into the vineyard – looks out into
murmurs what was it for? the cause of those murmurs? wherefrom did this murmur? To
was that because others whose service Not that
less than their due: that they could not say: but that they saw before other
those others whose for pay had been equal to their own, whom after which their service had been so much less
and received so much more than their due. Their complaint
was not founded on justice: because for a bargain, is a bargain,
and what they had bargained for they had been paid:
But though not founded on justice they were i was not the less
founded on human nature: and that is the point here.

Identifier: | JB/147/174/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
Date_1	1810-02-04	Marginal Summary Numbering	35 or 1 - 37 or 3
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	174	Info in main headings field	Parl. Reform
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	E1
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	49399
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