★ Find a new page to transcribe in our list of Untranscribed Manuscripts
Annuity Notes Advertisement
This answer given, then let him form his estimate
 
of the quantity of reproach due to the the most the officer that most troublesome
 
of all theorists whose aim is to destroy the confidence
 
of the public in all  public men ascribing all effects
 
to their unquestioned and unquestionable causes.
Destroy all confidence in all public men! as if
 
any useful confidence could be destroyed by holding up
 
to the view of politicians the A.B.C. of politics! as if
 
the possessors of power had not ever failed or ever could
 
fail to pur join all over the
world in one common the pursuit of our common and
 
 object our common scheme of division  which  is common
to them all — a division by which punishment
 
profit with impunity and honour is endeavoured to be heaped upon
 
the misdeeds by which they profit, which the monopoly of punishment and
 
disgrace is secured to those by from which they see some
 
without adequate prospect of gain they  apprehend
 
loss and sufferance to themselves.
Sir Samuel Romilly, whose want of confidence in deficiency in the requisite
 
public men has been so flagrantly and so repeatedly
 
manofested betrayed by his attempts to rob so many Honourable Gentlemen
 
of the privilege of  trad improving their fortunes
 
by legalized and established swindling let him declare
 
whether he has found those inflexible supports to legitimacy
 
styled Country Gentlemen less strenuous in their d endeavours determination
 
to secure to themselves the faculty of obtaining by false
 
pretence money to an unlimited amount without disgorging
 
any part of it — less strenuous] let him say whether he has found them less strenuous in these their high endeavours than in their endeavours solicitude to heap
 
punishment upon the heads of the audacious <add>presumptive</add> rabble who, without any such
 
licence as is attached to the possession of fee tail or fee simple scruple not not to ape tread> in this audacious manner the example set them by their superiors.
| Identifier: | JB/002/009/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 2. | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1818-04-15 | |||
| 002 | annuity notes | ||
| 009 | annuity notes advertisement | ||
| 001 | |||
| text sheet | 1 | ||
| recto | d8 / e8 | ||
| jeremy bentham | |||
| 748 | |||