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26 Nov: 1810
Prizes
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Ch. i. Beginning
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Abuse, how far
coupled with transgression
in the case of
these several rules
1. Misapplication:
here will naturally
be abuse.
2. Application scanty:
here abuse not natural
3. Insufficiency:
Abuse is not natural
here, except in so
far as the insufficiency
is the result
of misapplication
4. Superfluity:
Here abuse is natural:
viz because,
and in so far as
misapplication is the
consequence: And it
naturally is
3. Insufficiency, viz in the part <add>in respect of</add> of the quantity of the matter of
reward applied in the occasion in question this or that occasion to the
production of the public service in the shape of the nature in question
4. Superfluity, viz in the part of in respect of the quantity of
the matter of reward applied in this or that occasion
to the production of the public service of the nature in the shape in
question.
As to abuse, .
1 The Those That in the case of misapplication the imperfection
will be apt to win the character of abuse will
be understood as it were of course
2. In a case where un-application of the portion
matter in question is the only shape in which imperfection
shows itself, the case will rarely appear
susceptible of any thing that can with propriety be made
to bear the denomination of abuse.
3. In the case where the insufficiency in respect of the
quantity applied constitutes the only feature of imperfection
the term abuse will be apt to appear in general be equally inapplicable.
But what if the cause of the insufficiency
be the misapplication made of that previous matter by
its being turned aside into this or that private pocket?
Here the more immediate and commonly more mischievous pernicious
imperfection consists in the insufficiency whereby the service
that should have been and might have been performed fails
of being performed. In this case an imperfection which if it
stood
stood alone would stand
clear of abuse, is combined or tinged
infested with abuse by
being combined with
another which is itself
tinged with abuse
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