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10 Aug. 1811 Fallacies

Ch. Lawyer A

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Lawyer has no such hop or fear to operate upon him, in weight to authority as the f-man has Impossible that it should be a to the lawyer that of the incognissability &c in purposes is factitious the work

But Churchmen by

In the case of the lawyer there will naturally be more of insincerity than in that of the Churchman.

There has already been occasion to bring to view the case of a middle or rather mixt state between that of evil consciousness and that of temerity — between that of improbity and that of weakness on the part of the and the utterer of these instruments of deception which may be cxharacterixed by the denomination come under the denomination of political fallacies.

As between the lawyer and the Churchman priest it may be matter of curiosity at least to observe consider in what relative proportions those ingredients may naturally be expected to be found mixt in these respective bosoms.

The more thoroughly closely the nature of their respective occupation and situation is considered, the more clearly it will appear that as between the one state and the other [+] in regard to any fallacy the deceptitiousness of which in in its action is capable of remaining unperceived by the utterer supposing them both peers, in the scale of probability the probability of evil consciousness is on the part of the ma of law as the highest, on the part of the churchman at the lowest pitch: or supposing as above, the acceptance and utterance of the fallacy in question to have for its cause a mixture of improbity and weakness, it is in the lawyers case that the rates of the improbity to the weakness will be the greatest at the highest point, in the case of the Churchman at the lowest point of the scale.

Identifier: | JB/104/348/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 104.
Date_1	1811-08-10	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	104	Main Headings	fallacies
Folio number	348	Info in main headings field	fallacies
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	peregrine bingham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	34319
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