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Law Taxes

3
v

If there be an abomination in the country of more peculiar
enormity foulness, be assured the peerage Lord: must have a that a Lord must have
more than proportionate share in it a chief share in it: it is for this that Lordsthe order was were
instituted, and so abundantly filled and so carefully
kept up: to do that mischief in the gross
which a man of vulgar mould is allowed to do
only in retail.

One course there is which of this companygang of
Lords would take they would shew themselves
real benefactors to their country: if they would
join themselves associate with one gang fraternity whatever of unlicensed
plunderers no matter choosing if they would the
most abandoned and the most desperate. The utmost
mischief they would do in that perpetrate in that former shape would bear
no proportion to that which they do in their present
shape, and in sooner or later the country would
be disburthened eased of them: as it is; they fasten burrough
themselves for everlasting in the vitals of justice like the or a a medical
politician came licensed
them not inaptly in
his own language
Ascardes in ano
Justitia
.|

immortal vultures in the liver of Prometheus

Think of a set of
men, whose sole occupation
if an occupation
it can be called
is to do mischief, and
that without the trouble
of a thought! to do
mischief and mischief
in the extreme

These are the men that with much more
truth than a set of miserable insolvents may bemight
said in the language of the old lawyers, giverecaput
lupinum, to carry a wolf's head on their
shoulders. And were any one out of compassion to
the distressed and indignation against wickedness to trial





Identifier: | JB/169/142/003
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 169.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

169

Main Headings

Folio number

142

Info in main headings field

law taxes

Image

003

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

d1 / d2 / d3 / d4

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::floyd & co [britannia with shield motif]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

arthur young

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

56962

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