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Sept. 1800
Annuity Notes 4 Abstract
Ch. XV.
Though this effect of the measure should be foreseen
- [+] though it should even be preexpressly-announced -} It is proof against
} Party effects
} on this ground
it is not in the power, even of combination comd <add>strong</add> of bination, a combination
to defeat it
Limitation only, not prevention
limitation to a degree altogether effect -
would be the utmost possible result of the most by every
[+] impressed on
every mind, and most
deeply in those
against whose machinations
it presents
an additional security
is in this view
intended as a defence-
nous and most persevering combination that
could be found againstupon the measure in this ground.
and,(a) By refusing the paper, each conspirator would make
a compleat and certain sacrifice of his own personal advantage, without
the smallest chance of affording any possible<add>desirable</add> effectual help
to the common object of the conspiracy. — Limitation only, not
prevention — limitation, to a degree altogether
without effect — would be the utmost possible result
of the most unanimous and most per-severingsever opposition on this ground.
2. A sacrifice
Note comes in as p. 196
Though The being so perfectly opposition - proof is a feature
by which distinguishes the proposed mode of reduction, stands distinguished in a
very striking waydegree point of view from every other. Though the consequence
of the proposed conversion were ever so clearly
foreseen, [+] though it were even expressly announced [+] by those who
either throughfrom fact
motives, or on the
honest ground of
personal interest
were disposed to
thwart it
by government - (as indeed virtually itcould not but would be) it
would not be in the power even of conspiracy, so
much as ti impede it. By refusing &c(a) as above as in p.3
of the copy.
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