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C 13. 13 Of Offences against Reputation in general Diss.

less degree in proportion to its ingenuity. The demerit of its
composition considered in a moral view will be therefor as its merit
considered in a literary view that is, in an intellectual point of view.

31 4 — set to Music — constituting a Ballad Be the stile of it what it may, it will be rendered
more mischievous by being set to Music. 32 For this, further means is given to the produced , and to the facility of rumour and common . For by this means
it may be rendered still more agreeable, and thence too, still
more easy to be apprehended and remembered.

Upon the whole then it appears that the last mischievous attack upon reputation is by defamation unaccompanied
by reproach in plain prose communicated as in
an ordinary Letter to the party defamed and to him only:
33 And that the most mischievous is by defamation blended
with reproach, composed in metre, in an ornamented stile,
printed, indiscriminately published and set to music.
The most mischievous of all Libels is a ballad.

34 The Degree of damage depends on the correspondence between the imputation and the Rank. It seems in general to be true that a man of higher
rank will be somewhat more hurt by an attack upon his reputation
than a man of lower rank in life. But the difference

Identifier: | JB/072/037/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 72.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	31-35
Box	072	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	037	Info in main headings field	of offences against reputation in general / of unlawful reproach
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f13 / f14
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::[lion with crown motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23654
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