JB/147/287/001

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16 March 1810
Sinecures

If in an engraved representation of a next of boxes,
12 suppose in number, all were to be represented as
of the same size, of an exhibition of this sort it is
everybody sees at once how necessarily misconception
must be the result.

Such would Similar In regard to these ideal compartments
to which to facilitate conception fictitious objects are
distributed by the inquiring mind similar would be the result
if without distinction between articles respectively containing
and contained they were all placed in a line upon a par with one
another either in the same perpendicular column or in the
same horizontal line.

If in the case of the nest of boxes above spoken of the several
boxes were represented each of them of its real size, or
if reduced, each of them reduced in the same proportion
it would then be seen that the number of them could not
be otherwise than compleat: and if instead the whole 12
a lesser number were exhibited it might a discovery
might be made with certainty wh how many were the
articles omitted, and in what situations places they should ought to have
been inserted placed.

Identifier: | JB/147/287/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
Date_1	1810-03-16	Marginal Summary Numbering	8
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	287	Info in main headings field	Sinecures
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	D13 / E4
Penner		Watermarks	TH 1806
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer	Andre Morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	49512
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