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11 June 1811 35 39 Ch. | | Authority
11 June 1811 35 39

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5. Prelavence Cause

1. In the House of Lords or Commons as in the Opera House a man takes his seat each time that more amusement is offered /pronounced/ there than elsewhere, and at no other.

2. For /such is/ the /a/ House of Commons as at the Opera House the same qualifications [...?] necessary as at the Opera House, a ticket begged or bought.

3 With any such art or science in the art or science of legislation /government in any of its branches/ not much acquaintance is understood to be necessary: to enable a man to take but /occupy a/ seat in the Opera House: but just[?] as much as to enable him to take /occupy/ a seat in the House of Commons.

In the Opera House a man does not feel himself bound by /the weight of/ any obligation other than that of abstaining from every thing by which annoyance or disturbance may be given to the ease and convenience of the company present: of these same obligations and no other does a man feel the weight in repsect of his /a/ seat in the House of Commons

In the Opera House the length and frequency of his presence depends altogether on his own conception of what would be most agreeable to himself, in that single conception unmixt with any considerations of a public nature: in that single conception, with the exception of such member whpse votes are at the command of those /to/ whose power /it is/

they

their acknowledged duty and their pretended determination to apply a contrast - in that single conception, in its most perfect purity, short and casual occasion excepted or not excepted, depends the length and frequency of the same mans attendance in the House
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