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Of Simple Falshood

-terial) not to apply the former contrivance to this
case. His design is here to make you think believe
not respecting the contents of this closet, not that
they were taken by other persons, but that they
have not been taken at all. Accordingly not having the key he breaks
open the door as carefully and with as little
violence as he can. Thus far there is neither falshood
nor fucation in the case. But in spite
of all his caution, a splinter from the door flies
off in the operation. This he carefully picks up, if suffer'd to remain on
the floor where it falls, would naturally operate
as an evidence and that a pretty conclusive one
of the fact which really did happen, the fact of the
door's being broke open. To prevent this conclusion
from being drawn, he carefully picks up the splinter
from and by the help of a little glue, fastens it
on as neatly as he can to the place from which
it was broke off. This again is fucation: but it
is in this instance rather of the obliterative kind:
for the design of it is to obliterate those traces of his
crime which had been left in the perpetration and to
make you believe that a certain fact which in truth has happen'd (to wit the
breaking open of the door / which has not happen'd: and in

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Identifier: | JB/071/081/004"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	004	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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