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18 April 1810
Sinecures

Of those advantages the existence can not in either
instance be wholly denied: but the more closely they are
looked into the more inconsiderable they will be seen to be.

Be the business what it may, a general liking to it
or at any rate the absence of aversion, will be evinced by
the acceptance of the office, under the conditions under which it
is offered, and the in case of sale, the higher the price
given for it, the stronger as already observed is greater the degree of liking which it
proves. When this degree is sufficient, any higher sufficient
to cause the business to be done as well as it is capable
of being done, any higher degree of alacrity supposing
it produced will not to any other individ person but the
official person by whom it is experienced be of any use.
But in this case are offices in general, with a few and
but a few exceptions.

2. As the case of the Shopkeeper, the parallel analogy is not near as close as at first view it may appear to be.
The In respect of those services, whatsoever they be, which
he has to render are the receipt of his fee the official
person is a unless that provision be made to the contrary
which it has not been usual to make, in the situation
of a monopolist. The customer who has the service to buy
has no other shop to go to, the seller will not have the
less custom with whatever rudeness harshness and incivility it may
be his humour to treat receive his customers.

Identifier: | JB/147/478/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
Date_1	1810-04-18	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	478	Info in main headings field	Sinecures
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	C2
Penner		Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	49703
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