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LIBELS.
If any one should be not who is not for the utter interdiction of the pen in matters of Government
and yet be will still for the suppression of what are called Libels, I should be glad to see his scheme
for party- — let him take for his example the conduct of some that public man
who is most obnoxious to him, or say even of another who is but little, so little as so as just to come within the verge
of his disapprobation. As for my part, I know that In this work 1, there is very decent matter enough for some scores of very defensible informations, such as if the Court of King's Bench should refuse to grant [have to file] I should be at a loss to know what to say for it. Let him compose his essay. Then will I produce [on my part] some
sentence which has been censured as libellous by the Law, like to which I do not say shall in point of scandal
shall not b the same squarely to as this his shall [appear] to be equal for that would be to suppose that to be which
there is not, a measure) but between which and his there should be no assignable & expressible
difference distraction. At the worst, I would produce 3 or 4 uncontradicted dictums of great
men, sitting where they ought to sit, & judging of what came before them, giving a description of what is libel which should include
his as well as any other. involve his under the appellation.
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scandal libels |
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jeremy bentham |
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