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Ins. Offences against Condition — Adultery

Corrupts morals these circumstances have a natural strong and almost unavoidable
tendency to corrupt the heart; not by cherishing in
it not the love of pleasure, which corrupts no hearts,
but by cherishing in it the habits of treachery and
dissimulation. For a man who under is about
to seduce or even to yield to the sollicitations meet the advances of
the wife of his friend it is impossible to carry on
his projects with success without possessing or acquiring
cherishing cultivating in himself dispositions very unfavourable
to his own happiness and to those who
may have occasion to become connected with him.
In the first place he must steel his heart against
the prospect of the distress which such a proceeding
if discoverd must bring upon his friend and all his
family. In the next place to prevent discovery
he must possess or acquire the most perfect consummate habit
of dissimulation, lying, command of temper and
of countenance added to the most determined perseverance
in a bad cause. These habits talents he must be
the acquire in a more consummate degree in proportion
to the sagacity, that is (as far as sagacity
is a virtue) in proportion to the sagacity of his
friend. By these accomplishments he is furnished
with the means and too much exposed to the temptation
of engaging in such courses which as may be are productive
of power and more obvious degrees of misery, and
stand obnoxious to a much more decided censure
from the moral sanction. maxims of the world. It the is the case with this
domestic as with political warfare, the ambition of mutiny

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Identifier: | JB/071/096/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	39-51
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	096	Info in main headings field	adultery
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f13 / f14 / f15 / f16
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23499
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