JB/550/395/001

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With a millstone suspended over
my head by a rope which by joining
hands it is in the power of these men and
in default of these, so many other men,
to cut – in this condition it is that I
venture to give publicity to the little narrative
which follows: True it is that in the
same career I have faced greater dangers
and as yet without coming in actual contact
with any such millstone. True it is
that after witnessing and in some sort experiencing
the effect of their respective exploits in the public
mind it seems not altogether improbable that in
such their career the one of them may stop the
other at any rate slacken: but still this is
but a peut-être, and by such a peut-être
it would too much to say that any se
thing intitled to the name of security is afforded.

True t is that if to the ermine
and the silk a cover of sack-cloth were substituted
or added and to the mass of artificial hair by
which the masquerade costume is completed – to the milk-white
powder a competent portion of ashes were substituted or added here would
be an exhibition to which the title of a security might without impropriety be allotted.

Identifier: | JB/550/395/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 550.
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Folio number	395	Info in main headings field
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