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1820 Apr. 10
J.B. to Carlisle 2
have been so heavily punished, I mean those of Thomas
Payne Paine received from first to last the finest circulation.
My opinion on the subject of religion are such as I am
neither ashamed to draw nor cut in my own conception
small to defend: at the same time it is a fixt
rule to me neither never to manifest declare them spontaneously in
any address to the public, nor in private to comply
any call made upon me directly or indirectly for that
purpose. To manifest them in public would be to produce give
in the minds of every reader with whose opinion
they disagreed, and in so far as those opinions are unknown person by the
name by which they were produced that unness could not
be attended with every advantage. To accuse them in consequence
of any private call made upon me in private
would be, by submission to give enemies general to a cost
of which list too often, and ever is that
indignation it has happened to me to be exercised. That
this would on every occasion be my reason and
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jeremy bentham |
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arthur wellesley, duke of wellington |
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letter 2602, vol. 9 |
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