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Inducements

None given in general in books, but the simple approbation or disapprobation of the author

This is the case wherever the recommendation is given in the form of a precept

Men are to believe him to be a wiser man than ordinary because he likes you so — Hus disapprobation is to regarded as an earnest of the disapprobation & displeasure of the world at large.

Anger — Inducements to abstain from — 1. Painful in they the existence of it — it suppresses pru pain —

2. It The gratification of it excites enmity on the part of the object — thence attracts ill offices the fruits of enmity

3. The attempts at gratification expose to disappointment

4. Exposes a man to general odium — to the pain of the popular sanction.

Progress of refinement in the practice of the art of keeping fair with people — How compliments can in tion their sweetness — Excuses Pretenses their faculty of deluding, & their real meaning

How compliments and excuses may even at length have the effect of affronts.

Parallel case — Words originally full of delicacy, and serving as veils to gross ideas, become indelicate when th gross idea has acquired a pwful connection with the word employd to cover it.

Examples Alles a la garderobe Baises une femme To pluck a rose To sleep with a woman

Sincerity the absence of simulation and dissimulation

Sincerity how far it goes by — — and veracity which is only the absence of simulation.

Veracity respects all facts without distinction — Sincerity only facts of a certain nature

How far politeness is compatible tiable with sincerity

Taste Prudence — Subordinate to the Art Method of guarding against imposition — Cautions respecting the several modes of imposition.

Identifier: | JB/014/015/003"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 14.
Date_1	1795-05-23	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	015	Info in main headings field	morals
Image	003	Titles
Category	rudiments sheet (brouillon)	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	4778
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