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2. In regard to the degree of skill made
requisite to the production of the genuine
instrument, and thence also of the spurious one.

Of all possible applications of the sort of
design the case in which imitation is most
difficult as well as deviation most observable,
is that of a portrait exhibiting the face of a
real person, engraved by a first rate hand.
when I say observable, I mean not only speak
with reference not only merely to a professional eye, forewarned
pre-apprized of the probability of imitation,
and scrutinizing the object with a view to detection,⊞ ⊞ (for that if in that point of view, the were all, the expedient would belong rather to the ensnaring than the obstructive class) but, to the artless and incurio with reference to the incurious eye
of the artless and uninstructed multitude.

This one expedient will be sufficient of
itself to the artist who paralyze the hands of the vulgar herd of
forgerers. An ordinary artist will feel in
all its force the difficulty of p making his
productions in this way pass for those of a
first-rate hand: and the chance chance seems only
small indeed, that an artist whose skill,
in this the most lucrative branch of the
art, is considerable enough to present him
with any hope of success thus employing it with
success, should conceive it worth his while to
go astray from the safe and honourable paths of his profession,
for the sake of plunging into an enterprize so full of infamy and danger.

Identifier: | JB/003/314/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 3.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	11
Box	003	Main Headings	manual of political economy
Folio number	314	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f11
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1798 <…>m
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1798
Notes public		ID Number	1724
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