L d Eldons Bill
'.16
Simple or Compound
Date of the Decree of the Court of Session suppose 1 st Feb y 1809: sum adjudged ,1,000. Date of the judgment of the Lords House in affirmation of the decree 1 st Feb y 1810. Interest at 5 per Cent of simple interest ,50, of compound interest ,52:10: + │ │ = │ │
when at simple profit reckoning it but at 12 per cent, instead of the ,50, it would have been ,120.
(│ │) (the said House in its sound discretion)
A lantern to light the said House in its paths, and in the said lantern the same ignis fatuus as before. Even as the said Presiding Judge with the said Judges, or any three "of them", the said House having two discretions, a sound and an unsound one, the said legislator in his sound discretion enacts, that on this occasion /for this once/ the sound one shall be produced.
July 1810
Fallacies
19
Pref
Hamilton
Omitt in the 1\T stT\ edition
This is the accomplished political character which the system of existing circumstances called uncorrectly by some lips the system of corruption, tends to form and exhibit. /towards and aims at the formation of:/ This is the sort of plant which in the hot-beds of Eton and Westminster and the Succession of Oxford and Cambridge, with Latin prayers in the in sud-leaf[?] /turns[?] a day/, + and Subscription oaths and perhuries /and equivocations/ applied to the habit gains strength: under the Sunshine of royal influence, the established and ever fashionable horticulture tends to rear, To[?] preferment and its ladder orthodoxy in every shape an attachment /adherence/ as firm /unalterable/ /necessary/ as the most rigid Calvinist /[...?]cept of Calvin/ ever imagined: in between right and wrong, in between truth and falsehood as between Sincerity and insincerity, in between veracity and mendacity, an har[...?] and truly Arminian /and constantly /for ever/ inviolable/ liberty of indifference.
+ See[?] | | by the Rev:\T dT\ D\T rT\ Vincent then the head master of the Royal School at present Dean of the Collegiate Church of Westminster.
7 June[?] 1810[?]
Fallacies
*14
Preface
*2
| | Hamilton
Not to be inserted: at least in a first edition.
In the character of this man may be seen an example /a specimen/ - a specimen but of the most exquiste and finished brand[?] /rank/ - of the sort of character formed and endeavoured to be formed by an English University eduction: in /under/ which, in addition to prude[?], if the youth be of that class by which preferments are /preferment is/ bestowed, servility and adualtion of he[?] be of that class by which preferment is sought, one thing which he is sure to learn and the only thing which he is sure to learn is insincerity - insincerity in all its forms, and above all in that /its/ most exquisite and pregnant form in which that /a/ zest is given to it beyond whatever can be found in it in any of the others - he who Knows any thing of an English University or of Church of England Religion, or of the [...?] part of English law - /English party policy -/ knows /sees/ already what 2 men before he is came to the word - perjury.
14 July 1810 July 14 4
Fallacies 1 Generalia
Ch. 1.
3
. 2. Fallacies classed
In those /such/ instances in which, after an explanation has been given of the natire of the fallacy, any thing remains that can contribute to the exposure of it, observations under the head of exposure are accordingly given.
But in many instances, where in addition to the indiciation given of /imtimationb afforded by/ the general term fallacy had been simply /merely/ explained, what appears sufficiently evident is that from any thing that can be added for the purpose of exposure the inefficiency of it in the character of a rational argument can not be placed n any clearer or stronger ground. In these cases the head of exposure is omitted, and in lieu of it examples are given of classes of cases in which the fallacy in question has been in use to be employed.
11 Aug. 1811 +
Fallacies Ch. Classification
1
Ch. 2. Classification of Political Fallacies
Ch. | | Political Fallacies classed.
So numerous and multifarious are the instruments of persuasion which in the character of fallacies there will be need to bring to view, that to enable the mind /concpetion/ to obtain any tolerable command over them, it will be necessary to look out for some sources /grounds/ of [...?]ntial and universal and reciprocal relate[?] such as may serve as in the character of common principles of connection by which they may be bound /tied/ together in the mind, some which[?] their points of coincidence /similitude/ /agreement/ or contiguity may be brought to view, and at the same time as in the character of grounds of distinction /marks of discrimination/ by which their points of distinction and contrast/ may be brought to view.
7 Aug. 1811 + 2
Fallacies Ch. Classification
2
Ins special reform it has to popular & in particular to highest constitution.
In the political position of the persons employed occupying among the utterers in the field of politics may be seen a circumstance from which the most important /material/ as well as comprehensive sources /principle/ of distinction and consequent division any be deduced.
Fallacies of the Ins - fallacies of the Outs - and Eitherside fallacies - Anarachical fallacies - in those denominations may be seen so many indiciations of the object at which /objects at which/ the fallacies /respectively/ classed under them respectively are directed, and thence in some measure of their respective natures and characters /and complections/
Under the denomination of Fallacies of the Ins may be comprehended such fallacies /instruments of persuasion and deception/ as are in general are most apt to be applied to the purposes which in the situation there in question /indicated by that familiar appellative/ men are most apt to direct their exertions. What those objects are is a question to which a general answer will naturally present itself to every mind: to give a more particular and correct conception of them is a task the performance of which will for the purposes of this work require /cause[?]/ to be endeavoured at a little further on.
7 Aug. 1811 3
Fallacies Ch. Classification
3
The import of the word Ins being given, the import of the Outs is also given.
Ins, public men actually in power: Outs, public men not actually in power, but toiling and endeavouring to be so. These are the short definitions, and these for the purpose of the moment at least, may suffice
The import of the [...?] Fallacies of the Ins, and that of the [...?] Fallacies of the Outs being given, the import of the term Eitherside Fallacies is also given.
Eitherside Fallacies is a term employed to give /convey/ a general intimation of such instruments of deception as upon the face of them are /appear/ equally adapted to the purposes of the ins and to those of the Outs. Upon a nearer inspection /the side of the Outs us that on/ they will be found to be employed with most energy and advantage.
/Of the term/ Anarchical Fallacies /is a term/ the import of which will present itself to view as not standing much in need of explanation.
Under /To/ this common head may be classed /referred/ divers ways if not of arguing of speaking, the truth and propriety of which being admitted it would follow that government is a bad thing /institution/, and one that if at all, ought not by any body, for any length of time to be submitted to and endured.
8 Aug. 1811 4
Fallacies Ch. Classification
4
So extensive is the application capable of being made of them that principles rather than fallacies is the term by which they may seem to lay claim to the being designation | | to have employed in the designation of them.
8 Aug. 1811 5
Fallacies Ch. Classification
5
The first principle of division /distinction/ has thus been taken from the situation of the utterers of these instruments of deception - of the persons by whom they are uttered and addressed.
The situation of the utterers is thus the source that which has been resorted to for the first principle of distinction employed in the division /distribution. made of the aggregate body /mass/ of these instruments of deception.
That /From The situation/ of the persons to whom they are addressed - the persons who are looked to as likely in the character of expected acceptors will serve for the next and only remaining principle of distinction and distribution /division/ that will /and[?]/ on this occasion be employed.
8 Aug, 1811 Aug 6
Fallacies Ch. Classification
6
If, like the country which he inhabits, the mind of man were divided or divisible into departments, separated each from every other by exact and undiscompanied[?] boundary-limits, this secondary principle of division would answer its purpose to a degree of perfection much beyond what it can hope to attain as matters stand in reality in this respect /possess in this respect/.
As it is, this principle of distinction such as it is, is the only one that presents itself as capable of being applied to this purpose with any advantage
When, for giving facility to the operations of conception and retention, prominence and by means of prominence
preeminence is endeavoured to be given to a few /some/ /this or that one/ of the leading ideas in any line of enquiry a foreign language has frequently, and not only frequently but usefully and successfully been thus improved for this purpose.
On the present occasion the groupes formed by the application of the principle of division first adopted appearing too large to be easily and effectually grasped by the perceptive faculty /mind/, am ulterior principle of division a principle of subdivision was looked out for, This, taken from the divisions which in the geography of psychology have been endeavoured with how little felicity soever to be made of the territory of the mind, having presented itself as the only one applicable to the purpose, the later was the language looked to as the
only
only one sufficiently familiar from /in/ which a set of names uniting the qualities of prominence and brevity could be found /would be to/.