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28 Feb. 1810
Sinecures

Violent are the apprehensions entertained or professed
to be entertained of the prevalence of a levelling principle:
a principle in virtue of which all the property of in the country would
be to be taken out of the hands of its present possessors
and shared among the body of the people subjected to a
new division according to what was as one
time law in Ireland. As to the wishing for any such
change I am for my own part, so far am I from being nearer
on a considerable degree further removed removed from any such wish
than any of those great characters who in their high situations
have shown themselves the most strenuous supporters
of Sinecures.

Whether there be any one person by whom any such
wish is seriously entertained is what I am as a question
which i in my view of the matter as far from
being worth resolving as from being capable of being resolved:
were it to happen to me to know supposing the wish to be entertained by thousands,
it would be matter of no concern to me, satisfied that
for every thousand by whom it were entertained there would
be a million by whom it would be aborred abhorred.

Identifier: | JB/147/210/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
Date_1	1810-02-28	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	210	Info in main headings field	Sinecures
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	C1
Penner		Watermarks	TH 1806
Marginals		Paper Producer	Andre Morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	49435
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