★ Find a new page on our Untranscribed Manuscripts list.
[https://transcribe-bentham.ucl.ac.uk/index.php?title=JB/073/095/001&action=edit
2 NONCON. Prejud. against it in favor of in Ancients
rate certain characters who which have a particular
place in their good graces must have a
ticket of exemption; & the concurrent testimony
of Authors Writers contemporary & nearly
subsequent
is to be clamoured down, who in all the
simplicity of chronicleunanxious narration, with voices of genuine voluptuousness not tuned to blame censure, but even tuned to praise
defense in favor of it's truth.
Socrates.
---page break---
---page break---
3
Even Mr Dr Voltaire, so superior in general
to all prejudices
too great a connoisseur in the sources from
whence true pleasures are is derived
not to regard this opinion spurious with a physical
abhorrence & it's practisers with a contemptuous
pity, he is at the same time too
sound a moralist & Politician not to disapprove
of the atrocious severities shewn exercised
against it by the Laws.
Identifier: | JB/073/095/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 73. |
|||
---|---|---|---|
073 |
law in general |
||
095 |
noncon - prejud. against it & in favour of ye ancients |
||
001 |
|||
text sheet |
1 |
||
recto |
f2 / f3 |
||
jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::gr [crown motif]]] |
||
23935 |
|||