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Reforms French. 1. Church benefices
2. Feudal rights
3. Judicial offices hand off as not value
4. Pennons off or diminished.
5. Plans unbrought abolished without equivalent
6. Hints in him of antient servitude abolished without recompense indemnity.

English
Uncompensated
Abolition of Places held during pleasure.

Restitution
French
French Protestants to estates forfeited . Louis 14

English
Rebels of 1745
Rebels of 1715

Polit. Economy
Sudden application of discouragement – moral of encouragements.

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[IV A
A reform is not beneficial, but pernicious in

A reform which
operates to the by the
sacrifice of subsisting
prejudice of interests
already subsisting,
is in
so far as it operates
in that
manner, not
beneficial, but
prejudicial to the
state.

A reform which
operates any otherwise
than to instead by
preventing the
birth of expectations
of superfluous unnecessary
salary or emolument
operates
by the reduction
disappointment
of habits of expectation already
formed is
as far as it operates
in that manner
not beneficial but prejudicial injurious
to the state.

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It is to its immortality,
that
the state is indebted
for the only means it
has of gaining
real relief from
whateverany
permanent burthen
which the profusion of government may have
imposed

The principle of
natural rights admitts
of no compromise.

Instead of rights
talk of expectations.

How much superior
is has English instinct
proved itself been to French
reason!

The faith of the
French Atheist outstrips
In comparison of Athanasius was a
this French creed the
sceptic in comparison of a French Atheist: Athanasius is scepticism. .there are. [At Rome is]
not one infallible
[in France to be
but twelve hundred
infallibles.

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Expectation! this
Expectation is
the grand word
that ought never to be
perpetually
sounding in
the ears of whoever
undertakes
to compose construct or
modify a code
of civil law.

Expectation is the
basis of every
proprietary right:
it is this affords
whatever reason
there can be for
adjudging giving a thing
to one man rather
than another.

Keep the current
of expectation
undisturbed inviolate:
in these words
are contained
the quintessence
of the great
landmark o
the civil code,
the quintessence
of every thing
which utility
can dictate on
this extensive
ground.

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1
Of schemes for
the equalisation
of property

2
Of the plans of
economical as
reform as executed
under the French Revolution.

3
Of the restitution
of antient confiscations.

Metaphysics
To load the science
of metaphysics
with the infamy of all such the
nonsense and
such mischief is as unreasonable
as it would be to
call the authors of it knowing
metaphysicians.
The name of the
science called
metaphysics might<lb/ have been happier
chosen: but to impute⊞ ⊞ to impute the confusion
of ideas to the science
of which the endeavout
as to keep them clear and
to them
whatever be
is as reasonable as it
is would be to impute the
intemperance of
to physics, knavery
to Ethics, or want
of functionality to
watchmaking.

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As far as concerns
the mischief of the
1st order it stands
upon the same footing
as a common act
of robbery. It is
attended with all
that mischief which
men commonly have
in view when they
think of robbery an act, [and
regard it as an object
meet for punishment.]

If a person of

If the passenger
who was robbed of
his purse t'other day
on the highway had
had neither wants or
nor feelings, or the
money he was robbed
of had been worth
nothing to him, the
act revolution effected
by the highway man
who robbed him of it
would might have been beneficial
to the state.

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If the Church
dignitary who
lost has benefice
the state pensioner
who lost his pension, or was the
proprietor of Seigneur who lost feudal
rights sho
and the proprietor
of an office who
receives an inadequate
price for it had neither
wants nor feelings, or if the emoluments
they
found themselves
bereft of had had no
value in their hands
been worth nothing
to them.

The language
was that the
Church dignitary,
the pensioner,
the placeman, the feudal proprietor
were more
selfish more attached
to their property,
than other men: and this
observation circumstance which
had it any truth in it
would have encreased enhanced
the public mischief
of the measure was tal
relied on dwelt upon as an
argument in
justification of the
measure.

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Nay but say they
the Churchman had
no property: and
where there is no
property there is
no injustice. The
bread which feeds
the mechanic, the
shopkeeper or
landowner, is the
property of the landowner
the shop-keeper
or the mechanic:
but the bread which
feeds the Churchman
is not his property
the property of the Churchman.

If the widow whose
means of subsistence
consists in the interest
of a sum of
money, the forced
reductions of the rate
of interest might
If her have made
an addition to that
amount to the wealth
of nations, but it
remains yet to be
proved that £20
a year is worth less
to the widow who
has £500 to lend,
than to the landowner
improver or the manufacturer
that wants
to borrow it.
As the savings of
the land-improver
and manufacturer
accumulate encrease, the
money treasured mite of the helpless
widow is worth
less and less to them
and they will give less
and less for the use
of it: but is any
thing added to the
wealth of the state by
forcing her to take less for
her money than they would
be content to give for it.

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If Madame de
la Grange had
been a member of
the National Assembly,
she might
have proved that
she had poisoned
nobody, or that poisoning
was no injury.
Arsenic,
she might have
said is the same
thing with sugar:
and sugar is a
sweet and wholesome
aliment.

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Oh, but those overgrown
Churchmen
were idle: they did
next to nothing for their
money. If they
had done absolutely
nothing would they
have been any otherwise
than upon a
part with the landowner
of equal
income?

Oh but the landowner
got children – perhaps so
and so would the
Churchman of pretend
lit from, When
is the most of understand the satisfaction
of getting
and of leaving children:
but where
is the merit of it.
If it is of no use
to the state that
the Churchman now
he is begotten should
be fed, what was the
use of getting him?

If a race of idlers
are to succeed one
another what difference
does it make
to the state whether
they are of the same
blood or different
bloods?

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