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3 Feb. 1810
SineCures

Licensed or unlicensed – Unpunishable or punishable
such is the course a man is driven into, by whom public
money is pocketed, and no service rendered for it. For such is the force of moral feeling no
man will has effrontery howsoever profligate, loses his principles: nor will any man however profligate acknowledge the violation of principles which he
himself professes. The highwayman will not violate his
own principles: the assassin will not violate his own principles.
He determines what his practice shall be: and that done
he makes to himself for himself a principle or set of principles such
as in his view of them serve and suffice are sufficient to justify such his practice.

In private, as in public what whatsoever it is a man
does⊞ ⊞ he must appear to think himself in the right, whatever may be thought by others, some reason he must have some phrase therefore that is some phrase at his tongues and to
give for it. For pocketing of public money there must always
be a pretence; though no pretence can be too .
In the house – at a private table – those what is necessary is in both places
there must be is necessary is a pretence: what is not necessary is that
in both places it the pretence should be the same. In the House it
is submission to royal pleasure – signified in acknowledgement
of his own poor service or some more service
rendered by an illustrious ancestor or relation now no more.
At table it is – why should not I have it! If I had not,
somebody else would: an opportunity offered and if I had missed it whom where
would have been the man should I have had to thank me?

And is not all power all public power at least it
is not a trust? Oh Yes, in the House perhaps, or in a pa
metaphysical dissertation, or upon occasion in an
pamphlet: but at table or in Bond street offer to pronounce the
word trust you are either a hypocirte, or a Jacobin,
or what is worst of all a book-taught metaphysician – alias
a silly bellow, a metaphysical quiz – a book-taught silly fellow.

Identifier: | JB/147/251/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
Date_1	1810-02-03	Marginal Summary Numbering	2-4
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	251	Info in main headings field	Sine Cures
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	D24 / E2
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	49476
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