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<head>1820 Apr. 10<lb/>J.B. to Carlisle <unclear><gap/></unclear><!-- Pencil Note --></head><head>2</head><lb/>have been so heavily punished, I mean those of Thomas<lb/><del>Payne</del> Paine <!-- Thomas Paine, 1737 - 1809 -->received from first to last the finest circulation.<lb/><p>My opinion on the subject of religion <add>are such as</add> I am<lb/>neither ashamed to avow nor <del>own</del> in my own conception<lb/>small to defend: at the same time it is a <sic>fixt</sic><lb/>rule to me neither <add>never</add> to manifest <add>declare</add> them spontaneously in<lb/>any address to the public, nor in private to comply<lb/>any call made upon me directly or indirectly for that<lb/>purpose. To manifest them in public would be to produce <add>give</add><lb/><unclear>meanness</unclear> in the minds of every reader with whose opinions<lb/>they disagreed, and <add>in so far as those opinions are</add> <del>being <gap/></del> <unclear>unknown person</unclear> by the<lb/>name by which they were produced that uneasiness could not<lb/>be attended with every advantage. To avow them in consequence<lb/>of any private call made upon me in private<lb/>would be, by submission to give encouragement to a sort<lb/>of <gap/> which list too often, and never without<lb/>indignation it has happened to me to be exercised. That<lb/>this would on every occasion be my reason and<lb/>my sole reason for such silence — <add>this</add> at any rate that<lb/>free of that which <add>in any such account</add> <gap/> could do to me or not if the<lb/>minder of my reason is sufficiently known to<lb/>every man who has others seen as head of thank of<lb/><sic>Englandson</sic> examined. But for one person whose accident<lb/>has placed in this very situation there are multitude<lb/>whose situation is unhappily altogether opposite.</p | <head>1820 Apr. 10<lb/>J.B. to Carlisle <unclear><gap/></unclear><!-- Pencil Note --></head><head>2</head><lb/>have been so heavily punished, I mean those of Thomas<lb/><del>Payne</del> Paine <!-- Thomas Paine, 1737 - 1809 -->received from first to last the finest circulation.<lb/><p>My opinion on the subject of religion <add>are such as</add> I am<lb/>neither ashamed to avow nor <del>own</del> in my own conception<lb/>small to defend: at the same time it is a <sic>fixt</sic><lb/>rule to me neither <add>never</add> to manifest <add>declare</add> them spontaneously in<lb/>any address to the public, nor in private to comply<lb/>any call made upon me directly or indirectly for that<lb/>purpose. To manifest them in public would be to produce <add>give</add><lb/><unclear>meanness</unclear> in the minds of every reader with whose opinions<lb/>they disagreed, and <add>in so far as those opinions are</add> <del>being <gap/></del> <unclear>unknown person</unclear> by the<lb/>name by which they were produced that uneasiness could not<lb/>be attended with every advantage. To avow them in consequence<lb/>of any private call made upon me in private<lb/>would be, by submission to give encouragement to a sort<lb/>of <gap/> which list too often, and never without<lb/>indignation it has happened to me to be exercised. That<lb/>this would on every occasion be my reason and<lb/>my sole reason for such silence — <add>this</add> at any rate that<lb/>free of that which <add>in any such account</add> <gap/> could do to me or not if the<lb/>minder of my reason is sufficiently known to<lb/>every man who has others seen as head of thank of<lb/><sic>Englandson</sic> examined. But for one person whose accident<lb/>has placed in this very situation there are multitude<lb/>whose situation is unhappily altogether opposite.</p>In the hands of any one man who concerns himself<lb/>to have another man in any degree in his power a declaration<lb/>of opinion whether on the subject of religion or on the subject of<lb/>justices is a means <add>or instrument which if being employed for it cursing</add> of interesting that <add><gap/></add> power: and this <gap/> it<lb/><note>it has often happened<lb/>to me to know, or<lb/>but are apt to be most<lb/>cruelly and ungenerously<lb/>abused.</note> | ||
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1820 Apr. 10
J.B. to Carlisle 2
have been so heavily punished, I mean those of Thomas
Payne Paine received from first to last the finest circulation.
My opinion on the subject of religion are such as I am
neither ashamed to avow nor own in my own conception
small to defend: at the same time it is a fixt
rule to me neither never to manifest declare them spontaneously in
any address to the public, nor in private to comply
any call made upon me directly or indirectly for that
purpose. To manifest them in public would be to produce give
meanness in the minds of every reader with whose opinions
they disagreed, and in so far as those opinions are being unknown person by the
name by which they were produced that uneasiness could not
be attended with every advantage. To avow them in consequence
of any private call made upon me in private
would be, by submission to give encouragement to a sort
of which list too often, and never without
indignation it has happened to me to be exercised. That
this would on every occasion be my reason and
my sole reason for such silence — this at any rate that
free of that which in any such account could do to me or not if the
minder of my reason is sufficiently known to
every man who has others seen as head of thank of
Englandson examined. But for one person whose accident
has placed in this very situation there are multitude
whose situation is unhappily altogether opposite.
In the hands of any one man who concerns himself
to have another man in any degree in his power a declaration
of opinion whether on the subject of religion or on the subject of
justices is a means or instrument which if being employed for it cursing of interesting that power: and this it
it has often happened
to me to know, or
but are apt to be most
cruelly and ungenerously
abused.
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