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<head>1819 March 28<lb/> | |||
To Erskine</head> | |||
<note>II. Whig <unclear>Merits</unclear></note> | |||
<p>Had I a Revolution to make, <del><gap/></del> I had much rather <add>Were I in circumstances to</add> <add>disposed to</add> <add>make Revolutions, I had</add><lb/> | |||
<add>make in</add> <add>much</add> it should be for the <unclear>heaving</unclear> out <add>sending off</add>, a couple of dozen of Office<lb/> | |||
Clerks to live without fortunes, then for sending three and<lb/> | |||
twenty Right Honourables and Honourables to live upon<lb/> | |||
their fortunes.</p> | |||
<p>Personal connection of friendship and near relationship<lb/> | |||
and matchless public merit out of the question, my sympathy<lb/> | |||
saves itself a world of trouble [in measuring and<lb/> | |||
weighing] by <del>g<gap/></del> putting itself under the governance<lb/> | |||
of the numerator table. Were a choice to be made of<lb/> | |||
persons to be saved from drowning, I <del><gap/></del> should be twice as<lb/> | |||
well pleased to save two Kings as <add>to save</add> one beggar, but I should<lb/> | |||
be twice as well pleased to save two beggars as one<lb/> | |||
king. <add>King</add> James the second <add>says the h<gap/> King James the second</add> when in a storm took <del><gap/></del> e<gap/> care<lb/> | |||
of his two dogs, leaving his two-legged subjects to take their<lb/> | |||
chance: for my part, though <add>in such a case</add> I should not regard myself<lb/> | |||
warranted in doing as I pleased, I should have much more<lb/> | |||
pleasure in saving of any one dog than any one such James.</p> | |||
1819 March 28
To Erskine
II. Whig Merits
Had I a Revolution to make, I had much rather Were I in circumstances to disposed to make Revolutions, I had
make in much it should be for the heaving out sending off, a couple of dozen of Office
Clerks to live without fortunes, then for sending three and
twenty Right Honourables and Honourables to live upon
their fortunes.
Personal connection of friendship and near relationship
and matchless public merit out of the question, my sympathy
saves itself a world of trouble [in measuring and
weighing] by g putting itself under the governance
of the numerator table. Were a choice to be made of
persons to be saved from drowning, I should be twice as
well pleased to save two Kings as to save one beggar, but I should
be twice as well pleased to save two beggars as one
king. King James the second says the h King James the second when in a storm took e care
of his two dogs, leaving his two-legged subjects to take their
chance: for my part, though in such a case I should not regard myself
warranted in doing as I pleased, I should have much more
pleasure in saving of any one dog than any one such James.
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jeremy bentham |
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arthur wellesley, duke of wellington |
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