JB/058/397/001

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16 June 1805
Evidence

Two advantages though of minor subordinate importance are too material not to be
omitted mentioned, though perhaps rather in the relation they have to the system
is perhaps rather that of consequences than that of final causes.

1. One is the advantage of doing ones business in good company:
a select company of intimates, connected by every be identify of having the same interests, affections,
ideas, manners: these too in a state of subordination and dependence
in relation to the Judge. In such company, from such courses whatever
matter comes to be presented, will of course be presented in
a form the smoothest and most acceptable that can be devised.

Another is the negative advantage of not being obtruded upon by bad
company: a short phrase for a numerous and miscellaneous list
of negative advantages, amongst which is that of a mans being exempted escaping not being
obliged to hear abundance of things discourses which it might be inconvenient
to him to hear, to see abundance of sights things which it might be inconvenient
to him to obser see: tales and spectacles of woe, misery
in all its forms, scenes of ruin, to the depths from which his benefit is
extracted, and to the depth of which it is proportioned.

Not that from any sympathetic feelings exactable that could be excited by
such objects in such experienced breasts might not find fortitude
sufficient for their endurance, but that inasmuch as whatever
a man knew, he would at the same be known to know, dissatisfaction
might chance to be excited in the minds of bystanders as
well as parties suitors, fro the observation reflection should it happen to them to observe consider
how efficient taken a part in the aggravation or production of the
disease was taken borne by the hand that professedly occupied in the application
of the remedy. Whatever mischiefs it would be inconvenient
to him a man to prevent, much more those that to which it is convenient to him to give produce
birth, no man fails of understanding is backward to comprehend how inconvenient it would be to
have to be respected so much as suspected, much more to be known, to know.

The ranks of professional
lawyers, one behind another,
serve as so many screens
which prevent the light of
uncertain truth from being
seen to reach the Judge's great man's eyes.

Identifier: | JB/058/397/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1805-06-16	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-2
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	397	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	19066
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