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<p><!-- pencil -->2 April 1810<lb/> | |||
<!-- pencil --><head>Sinecures</head></p> | |||
<p>Essential interests? – what interests? did they <add>could they<lb/> | |||
<unclear>tell</unclear></add> know? then why not specify them? did they<lb/> | |||
not know? – then why persevere in a task for<lb/> | |||
fulfilment of which they <del>felt thems</del> could not<lb/> | |||
themselves so much as suppose themselves qualified.</p> | |||
<p>Dignity of the state? what dignity? | |||
<add>deny</add> Justice <del>sold denied</del> to nine tenths of the people<lb/> | |||
<del>sold</del> <add>sell it</add> at <gap/> price to the remaining tenth.<lb/> | |||
<add>Done</add> Magna Charter <del>stormed</del> to perpetual violations.<lb/> | |||
<del>this in England is state dignity</del> To that <add>natural</add> portion<lb/> | |||
of <del>delay</del> inconvenience in the shape of delay vexation<lb/> | |||
and expence which is inseparable from Justice<lb/> | |||
add ten times as much a hundred times as much<lb/> | |||
of your own <unclear>making</unclear> – do <add>all</add> this and welcome<lb/> | |||
on condition of strutting about the room with<lb/> | |||
a pen in your hand and in theatrical <unclear>time</unclear><lb/> | |||
and gesture, trumpeting out the words "<hi rend="underline">essential<lb/> | |||
"interests</hi> and dignity.</p> | |||
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2 April 1810
Sinecures
Essential interests? – what interests? did they could they
tell know? then why not specify them? did they
not know? – then why persevere in a task for
fulfilment of which they felt thems could not
themselves so much as suppose themselves qualified.
Dignity of the state? what dignity?
deny Justice sold denied to nine tenths of the people
sold sell it at price to the remaining tenth.
Done Magna Charter stormed to perpetual violations.
this in England is state dignity To that natural portion
of delay inconvenience in the shape of delay vexation
and expence which is inseparable from Justice
add ten times as much a hundred times as much
of your own making – do all this and welcome
on condition of strutting about the room with
a pen in your hand and in theatrical time
and gesture, trumpeting out the words "essential
"interests and dignity.
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