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<!-- Page 24 Pencil note --> nor any thing of his had intentions<lb/>attributed to him. But a bad intention<lb/>is an intention to do a bad act: the<lb/>act in question will in many cases<lb/>be the act which he has actually done:<lb/>and that, <add>commonly</add> not without an intention<lb/>of doing it. As to hatred and contempt<lb/>hatred has respect to supposed improbity<lb/> on his part: contempt to supposed<lb/>want of intellectual aptitude or<lb/>active talent. See this division illustrated<lb/>and employed in my plan of<lb/>Parliamentary Reform, if ever you<lb/>have it. Now I see not how any<lb/>thing can be imputed to the measures<lb/>of a man in a public situation &<lb/>consequently to the man himself<lb/>without a <sic>tendancy</sic> to draw into<lb/>question his claim to one or more<lb/>of those points of official aptitude<lb/>and thereby supposing the deficiency<lb/>to a certain degree flagrant to<pb/><note>draw down upon him the sentiments of odium or contempt or both.</note> | |||
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nor any thing of his had intentions
attributed to him. But a bad intention
is an intention to do a bad act: the
act in question will in many cases
be the act which he has actually done:
and that, commonly not without an intention
of doing it. As to hatred and contempt
hatred has respect to supposed improbity
on his part: contempt to supposed
want of intellectual aptitude or
active talent. See this division illustrated
and employed in my plan of
Parliamentary Reform, if ever you
have it. Now I see not how any
thing can be imputed to the measures
of a man in a public situation &
consequently to the man himself
without a tendancy to draw into
question his claim to one or more
of those points of official aptitude
and thereby supposing the deficiency
to a certain degree flagrant to
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draw down upon him the sentiments of odium or contempt or both.
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