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Evidence
Introd
Ch. Procedure Technical
Those of the principle of corruption in the Natural system generally irresistible.
A man in whose mind the idea of human misery by wholesale /in immense masses/ is by a train of experiences continuing /occupying/ through the whole track of life connected /associated/ in the character of a cause with wealth, power, glory, every thing that is dearest to mans heart /most dear to [...?] man/ /that wealth flowing into his own coffers, that power wielded by his own sceptre, that glory circling his own brow/, is it in the nature of man that any other emotion than that of delight, or at the least of faint and inoperative[?] regret should accompany the idea of that exterior and distant however enormous evil, or if any event or state of things that comes to be regarded as a cause of it?
If either in deportment or language or deportment in [...?] hands and pathetic spectres[?] any symptoms of concern are /be/ uttered in [...?] can they be any thing better than a varnish laid by [...?] over a ground of selfishness or hypocrisy or self interest /professional congruity/ /necessity/ over a ground of selfishness /self-regard/.
Are not the most admirable and fascinating actors, the most displayers[?] of counterfeit feeling known, by those who see them when the [...?] is of, to be actors and no more?
After a moments reflection, will any man be weak /is there any man weak/ enough to suppose that the real sufferings are more severely felt by [...?] /[...?]/, than the [...?] cook[?] in the story-book who - where occupied in skinning eels alive, and asked how he would be so wise[?], [...?] - they are used to it /it is no more than/ what is he but the Judge, under the French English technical system, stripped of the masquerade accoutrements /decorations/ of borrowed [...?] and conscience[?]. The fact /cause assigned/ was true though the expression was of that confused sort /perplexed texture/ which is so naturally employed by shame for /as/ a covering for guilt. Usage there really was though not in the exact quarter /exactly in the quarter/ to which it was referred: usage there really was: and as truly as that usage was to be found the cause of apathy and indifference.
Can it seriously be expected, that man will be occupied, constantly and habitually and zealously throughout life, in thwarting his own interests and wishes?
[...?] [...?] [...?] is the [...?] [...?]:
[...?] [...?] delay [...?] in the comment made upon it by [...?] is highest in the judicial hierarchy of England.
By the men of law many [...?], at the expence of how many broken [...?] may not that and have been purchased?
Known by those who are in the [...?] of private lifes, known
Why /How could you/, to get keep many wrinkles cash for six month in texture. Answer - they are used to it.
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