JB/039/143/001

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1824. May 2
Constitutional Code

to the rendering of such service as in various shapes would be
acceptable to the patron no self sacrifice in any shape worth regarding
would be requisite: laudation, admiration, ostentation
affected sympathy as towards him and his favorites – antipathy real or affected in words his adversaries
indication of devotedness by deportment, counter gesture,
language by homage devotedness in all these shapes⊞ ⊞ trumpeting his merits
in all companies
depretiating and vituperating
his adversaries
in all companies – a better chance
beyond all comparison for obtaining the desired boon would be
afforded them by the any interest most valuable extra public service
which is even in the power of any single person to render
to the community at large. By this Even In the case of this
or that extra-meritous suppose even public extra service rendered
to so high a value as to render in his estimation exempt him according to his
calculation from the necessity of having recourse to those more direct and certain modes of purchasing the
desired boon – still by this exemption from not more than
half of the weight of the chain of dependence would he
be feel himself relieved. The <add> own personal</add> external In his intercourse with the patron
what soever were the exterior of devotedness
paid by other aspirants to of these he would find it necessary
to make display, in pain of giving offence: the positive
obligation of endeavouring to please, and in the servility
auction bidding against his rivals by biddings in this
shape is the only obligation from which he would feel himself
free: to the negative obligation – the obligation of doing nothing
to give offence – of keeping to himself all thought by
which that misfortune could be restored – with the whole weight to this obligation
he would the extra meritants how valuable so ever were
his service to the public wo feel himself loaded: and
thus fear his condition would be confounded with that
of the wind of simple meritants, non-meritants
and male meritants.

Identifier: | JB/039/143/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 39.
Date_1	1824-05-02	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	039	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	143	Info in main headings field	constitutional code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1824
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1824
Notes public		ID Number	12150
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