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Click Here To Edit 28 Jan 1808 Evid. Prosp. Vicc Peines 3

Throughout the whole body of the constitution the disease
of arbitrary power with the harmful symptoms that accompany
it are thus diffused and kept in fact. The Jurymen,
Judges,the superior, the inferior Magistrate, Ins Magistrates the King andwith his advisors
each of these further functionaries is arbitrarya despot within his sphere
for reason is required for whither he hangsdestroys in sures: caprice
or corrupt interest institution hasfind the<add>a clear ground to range in</add> find an embted
rump.

To the wrongThere In this case as in others the vice of the The practice of despotism
despot finds its encouragement and support in the train
of adulators.

To do wrong is impossible to him & to escape from
praise is equally impossible. Two opposite praisesvirtues
count the choiceJustice and : one or other he case not miss of.
on each occasion it rests with himself to counsel his
tasteconvenience or his, and adapt that which alutions to his purpose,
happens to be best adapted to his purpose.

In this state of things, everything is as it should be:
every thing is inwrapt in confusion: the life of man is made
the put either of chance, or of corrupt design
still worn them chance. Hypocrisy sits on every brow
and dislikepours forth from every life: every thing existsstands in the
most favourable state for thegiving dispelling and encouragementtriumph
of venal clergymenof mechanical sentimentality and venal clergymen.

To consideration they determined, would notcross and pile
would be a most advantageous substitute?


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Identifier: | JB/107/264/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 107.

Date_1

1808-01-28

Marginal Summary Numbering

4-6

Box

107

Main Headings

law versus arbitrary power (a hatchet for dr paley's net)

Folio number

264

Info in main headings field

peines

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

c3 / e63

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

Marginals

pr1

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

35255

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