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1822 June 5 J.B. to General St Martin Protector of Peru
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"And is it then" (it may be asked) a matter of such absolute certainty, that in the whole number of the individuals persons thus distinguished, there will not be at any time be so much as one, who except, by this much, is distinguished from the rest of the community by any thing but his worthlessness? Not exactly so. Whether by design or accident, or design so it, almost every where happens, that among the in the general mass of worthlessness, some small sprinkling of the worthy serve as a sort of pickling and helps to preserve the mixture from falling into absolute a sleep of universally sensible rottenness. But the less greater the proportion of the worthy is, the less absolute the power of the patron is: By this circumstance cause alone were there no other in the case they they are of course looked upon with by the evil eye: and the more of them can be kept out of the consistently with produce the they would in his eye be rendered an object of jealousy and aversion the satisfaction of But besides this, in even these distinguished he beholds a set of the public and secretly confederated adversaries: to the themselves merit in whatever line — merit as such is a source of sympathy and, of sympathy more of this character, antipathy as towards a man of an opposite character — antipathy more or less intense — is an almost inescapable accompaniment.
In its character as an instrument of corruption
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::i&m [fleur de lys] 1818]] |
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arthur wellesley, duke of wellington |
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letter 2891, vol. 11 |
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