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Police Revenue Bill
always new and indeed and endowed with attractions of which
the power is inherent and indestructible - asuccession set
of anecdotes incidents and occurrences, of that the sort
which comes home, and that in the closest senses
to ensurethe business and bosoms of the readers, [+] [+] materials the perpetual monopoly of which is secured to it - most compleatly and at the same time most unexceptionally secured to it
that sort of it seems to afford an mpt of that
anseems to be that sort of instrument though worthy of the ablest
hands isseems<add>is</add> incapable of being spoilt, even by the
clumsiest.
The Bill, (it may be said) is what the
people ought to read:- there is their best, not
to say rather their sole preservation. Be it so Quere: - but is
the conclusion just, that because they ought, therefore
they will read it? [+] Alas! - the opposite conclusion [+] and that nothing should be done in aid of this preservation? Were this reasonsing just, then ought all penal laws to be abolished, since a man oughts to live honestly although there were no such laws. No: the just conclusion
is perhaps the oftenest verified [+] In a
Newspaper (who does not know it?) a man will
read, and read throughout, what he would not
so much as look at elsewhere.- Many a man
who would loath or scorn to read his Bible in
his Bible, might be made to read it in the
Police Gazette. In his Bible, a man can
not be made to read the Police Gazette: but
in the Police Gazette he might be made to
read his Bible. The Biblesacred Book itself will not
be deprived by it of a single reader: - onThe situation of Archbishop of Canterbury
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Identifier: | JB/150/589/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150. |
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jeremy bentham |
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