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1821. April 26.

But as, with the power of granting, the power of refusing
receives correspondent encrease, so with that love which produces
gratitude will encrease that fear which produces respect: not to more
insist that than in the hands of the opulent, with the negative power
of refusing favour to those who have not been, and those who
have ceased to be, the objects of their good liking regard is conjoined, in
no oth inconsiderable degree, the power of doing positive evil to
whose who were the objects of their positive aversion. By the operation
of all these causes taken together, thus intimate is the connection
between the idea presented by the word rich, and the idea presented
by the word respectable. Of the effect produced by this association
on conduct, discourse and, to no inconsiderable degree, on opinion
and affection, an exemplification may be seen in the picture
of the parasite as drawn in by the earliest of the Dramatists
whose works have reached us.

if such and so great be the ordinary influence and
effect of the matter of wealth distributed in in hands of individuals
distributed in parcels of an ordinary bulk each, what
must it be collected accumulated in an immense mass in company
with supreme power and the highest lot of factitious dignity
together with the manufactory in which all inferior lots are fabricated
– are these instruments of influence all placed in the
same hand. If even were wealth the whole such be the influence of wealth when reckoned
by thousands, what must it not be when reckoned by millions.

As long as wealth and Government have had existence,
the powers of poetry and oratory have been exhausted employed in singing
the praises of the powerful the dignified and the wealthy. While the
effusions of praise have thus had free scope with reward in every
shape to pay for them, those of censure have all along and every
where been suppressed by every restraint that could be which it
was in the power of punishment to apply.

Identifier: | JB/036/010/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1821-04-26	Marginal Summary Numbering	13-16
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	010	Info in main headings field	first lines
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c7 / e6
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	10934
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