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18 C
Of Simple Falshoods

Example An example or two will make both these distinctions
clear. Your Butler for the purpose of
covering a theft of his own or for any other purpose,
this man having the key of the plate
cupboard in which your plate is kept, breaks
open the door by violence, in order to make you
You have a quantity of plate deposited in two
closets under lock and key. The key of one of
the closets containing some old-fashioned articles which have been little seldom brought out used to be in your own custody but has been lately lost: that of the
other is in your Butler's. Your Butler forms
a project for stealing the contents of both the
closets. With regard to the first latter closet, he comes
and tells you that at such or such a time such or
such a number of men broke into the room where
the closet was and took away the plate: that he
saw them, but by their threats was afraid to from the manner in which they behaved to him
was too much terrified to make resistance or to alarm the house. This is
much is ordinary falshood.To make this story
appear the more credible, he violently breaks open the
door with a knife, contriving to break the knife
at the same time, and leaving the fragments of it
near the spot. (a) This is . And it is f of the creative
NOTE (a) To make the contrivance seem more feasible, one may add any



Identifier: | JB/071/081/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

not numbered

Box

071

Main Headings

penal code

Folio number

081

Info in main headings field

of simple falshoods

Image

002

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f17 / f18 / f19 / f20

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::s. lay [britannia with shield motif]]]

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

alexander mavrokordatos

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

23484

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