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11. Why is it that the marks of honour [ribbands &c ] which ought to
be the reward of real services rendered to the country, do not
for the most part inspire the least particle of internal
respect for those who are invested with them.

12. Why with us is there no shame in doing nothing [being idle]

13. How can the fal drooping fallen souls of the nobility be elevated,
How can one drive out of their hearts that insensibility to the
value of the title of nobility, what is to be done that the
respectable title of nobility should be a doubtless demonstration
of a noble soul.

14. Ayant une hauete personne ou souveraine what should hinder
the establishing as a general principle to merit her bounty
by honest probity actions alone and not to dare look to obtain them
by deceit and intrigue.

15. Why in former times Buffons, Satyrists, and jesters had no
ranks given them, and but now they enjoy ranks and very
high ones.

16. Why many arrived from foreign countries who were esteemed
there as men of sense are considered her as fools, and
vice versa Why our beaux espirits here are considered
often as but fools in other countries.

17. The pride of the greatest part of the first nobility
where does it beg lay in the Soul or in the head.

Identifier: | JB/539/451/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1783-10-??	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings	Answers by the Empress Catherine
Folio number	451	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
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Penner	Samuel Bentham	Watermarks
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