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25 March 1810
Sinecures
of Reversion takes a more deliberate view of the mischief to
and emolument is longer
This is not less to a than to a limited monarchy
If there be no end to the patience of the people there is to this can not be said of their opulence
Compare this with
English of – any to be so.
There are two modes of applying royal grants of offices to
the plundering of posterity.
The least predatory One is upon a vacancy to grant the office in the first instance for
the lives of two or more persons at once and for the life of the survivor with the benefit of survivorship.
Another The other is, where there is no vacancy while the office is full, to grant the
reversion of it to one or three persons another person, who thereupon if
at the time of the vacancy they or any of them are alive
step in and take possession of the Office without any fresh
grant.
A third mode may be by compounding the other two: the
grant being made to subject of the grant being a reversion
and instead of one only, two or more would be
being the number of the tran persons for during whose lives
and the life of the survivor the office is to be enjoyed
by the grantee or grantees, whom by the extinction of the
life in being, the office is has been vacated.
Another modification of the first mode has been contrived by the ingenuity of favouritism yet remains. Naturally, he
who has whose influence matters is such as to enable him to
procure a benefice of this kind will prefer the having it
for his own life, not only to the having it for the life of any
one other person but to the having it for the lives of any number
of other persons. But Not to speak of marital, parental paternal tenderness
makes has found an exception to this rule. The perils of infancy once
passed, the life of the a son will in general be worth much
more than the life of the father: much more the life of the
longest lives of two sons. Were those sons strangers, still the intended
grantee for were a unless it were his plan intention to dispose of the office, the grantee might hesitate.
⊞ concurring the with
the never satisied
nor ever satisfiable
demand of the subsistence substance
of rich and poor for
the maintenance of
the dignity of great characters
in high situations
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