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Memorial.
17.
Occasion might likewise be taken to shew upon how much
more oeconomical a footing the collection of taxes
in this country stands that it does in France:
although according to the common notion, high taxes
are the necessary purchase-money price of liberty.
18.
See Plan No 28.
19.
There is a magnanimity in the idea of a man's trusting to
the intrinsic merit of his conduct, and disdaining
apology and justification,⊞ ⊞ wrapping himself up in his own virtue, & disdaining borrow'd, much more bought assistance. It issues from a respectable
and noble principle. The measures of the present
reign might with equal safety and dignity be trusted to vested in
this ground.
11.
[If there were no persons particularly interested
to traduce them, and if the human nature of the human
heart were such that sentiments of favour approbation
with respect to the conduct men in power found equal
in the bosom of the multitude, with sentiments
of spleen and censure.]
Unhappily neither of these suppositions is verified
by experience.
11
if there propose the propensities of the adversely adversaries to recuse
and of the Judges to condemn did not more than
keep pace with the just ground matter there might be in them
for condemnation.
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