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<p><!-- pencil -->28 Feb. 1810<lb/> | |||
<!-- pencil --><head>Sinecures</head></p> | |||
<p>Violent are the apprehensions entertained or professed<lb/> | |||
to be entertained of the prevalence of a levelling principle:<lb/> | |||
<add>a principle</add> in virtue of which all the property of <add>in</add> the country would<lb/> | |||
be to be taken out of the hands of its present possessors<lb/> | |||
and shared among the body of the people subjected to a<lb/> | |||
new <unclear>division</unclear> according to what <del><gap/></del> was as one<lb/> | |||
time law in Ireland. As to the wishing for any such<lb/> | |||
change I am for my own part, so far <add>am I</add> from being nearer<lb/> | |||
on a considerable degree further <add>removed</add> removed from any such wish<lb/> | |||
than any of those great characters who in their high situations<lb/> | |||
have shown themselves the most strenuous supporters<lb/> | |||
of Sinecures.</p> | |||
<p>Whether there be any one person by whom any such<lb/> | |||
wish is seriously entertained is <del>what I am as</del> a <unclear>question</unclear><lb/> | |||
<del>which i</del> in <unclear>my</unclear> view of the matter as far from<lb/> | |||
being worth resolving as from being capable of being resolved:<lb/> | |||
<add>were it to happen to me to know</add> supposing the wish to be entertained by thousands,<lb/> | |||
it would be matter of no concern to me, satisfied that<lb/> | |||
for every thousand by whom it were entertained there would<lb/> | |||
be a million by whom it would be <del>aborred</del> abhorred.</p> | |||
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28 Feb. 1810
Sinecures
Violent are the apprehensions entertained or professed
to be entertained of the prevalence of a levelling principle:
a principle in virtue of which all the property of in the country would
be to be taken out of the hands of its present possessors
and shared among the body of the people subjected to a
new division according to what was as one
time law in Ireland. As to the wishing for any such
change I am for my own part, so far am I from being nearer
on a considerable degree further removed removed from any such wish
than any of those great characters who in their high situations
have shown themselves the most strenuous supporters
of Sinecures.
Whether there be any one person by whom any such
wish is seriously entertained is what I am as a question
which i in my view of the matter as far from
being worth resolving as from being capable of being resolved:
were it to happen to me to know supposing the wish to be entertained by thousands,
it would be matter of no concern to me, satisfied that
for every thousand by whom it were entertained there would
be a million by whom it would be aborred abhorred.
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