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18 Jan y 1810
Parl y. Reform
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Ch.18 Sp. ?
'.3. Friendship continued
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I prefer the interests of my family to myself, my friends to my family, my country to my friends, mankind /humankind/ to my country - Such was the scale of preference professed, and probably /not improbably/ to a considerable /in no inconsiderable/ degree acted upon, by the reverend and celebrated truly venerable author of Telemachus. unaffected philanthropy of the kind and truly venerable author of Telemachus.
{Of the Orator /political preacher/ of S t Stephen's Chapel the scale of preference, if compleated, would it seems but too probable, be rather the reverse /a subversion/ of them the same with that of the virtuous Fenelon. /Frenchman./}
Such is the order of preference which surely {by} a man of true philanthropy, (which if sound morality is /be/ resolvable into philanthropy is as much as to say a man of sound morality) would wish to see held up /up for imitation/ /up to serve as a mark for the direction of the conduct of mankind/ held up more specially in any /all/ those high /distinguished/ situations /characters/ which who by the authority with which they are /stand/ invested, and by the influence which, by such opinions as they are understood to express, they exercise in the understandings of the admiring crowd below.
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Title: [18 Jan y. 1810 Parl y. Reform]Description: 18 Jan y. 1810 Parl y. Reform Ch.18 Sp. ? '.3. Friendship continued 30 7 from the chair of authority, from the vice-pulpit In proportion as the welfare of mankind has been dear to /an object with/ them and the course taken in pursuit of that object correct, all the endeavours of the leaders of nations /high-seated men/, whether in the character of rulers or in that of teachers have hitherto been directed to the object of counter acting and repressing /restricting/ not of promoting and inflaming in men's bosoms or [...?] the regard for self, and all other narrow interests to the prejudice of the more extended ones: in a word to engage them to the greatest extent possible, seeing how little danger there was of its being carried /pursued/ to too great an extent, to give to their conduct the maxim of Fenelon for its guide. Such has been their task - their constant task: and in all history may be seen but too plain a proof how hard a task they have found in it. Take care you dont prefer mankind to your own country /countrymen/. Take care you don't prefer your country to your friends and acquaintance at large - take care you don't prefer your friends and acquaintance at large to your own family - take care you don't prefer your family to yourself: - of any monitions and exhortations to any, such effect as the above it would not it is supposed be very easy to find examples any where, especially among persons so situated.
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Title: [18 Jan y. 1810 Parl y. Reform]Description: 18 Jan y. 1810 Parl y. Reform Ch.18 Sp. ? '.3. Friendship continued 33 10 A man in no situation, a man of nothing, who in preaching sound doctrine or what to him at least appears as such, has no [...?] to keep - has nothing to lose any more than any thing to gain unless so fond[?] a hope as that of seeing it turn to use /public use/ may be to be set down to the account of gain, also how no such property &c on any such occasion operates in any perceptible degree in the character of a man of influence - one who sees no person whose interest in the character of a friend it would cost him any thing to sacrifice on an occasion of the sort in question to the interest of the whole empire, nor any person who in that same character could suppose himself or be generally supposed to have /possess/ a claim to the benefit of any such sacrifice - who is in no situation, in no /nor in any/ trust, nor on this or any other occasion has any claim to the attention of the public or any part of it unless by the having devoted some forty or fifty years to the study of the interest of mankind in the definitive field of morals and legislation any such claim /a claim to any such effect/ should be supposed to be constituted, a man so circumstanced may, if without merit, yet it is hoped without reproach, hold himself free /be allowed/ to preach on this subject sound doctrine, or at any rate what appears to him as such. Taking up the pen with this view, instead of adopting and inferring the lessons just spoken of i.e either expressly or implicitly contained in the oration of the Right Honorable Orator, the lessons the only lessons which I can hold myself warranted in delivering on this same subject are the very reverse of his /those/. Specify them.
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Title: [18 Sep. 1809 Parl y Reform]Description: 18 Sep. 1809 Parl y Reform B. I. Necessity Ch.18. Mischief of Idol-worship Ch. Elog §. King-worship 7 14 7 He may be /Though he were/ ever so young, or ever so old, ever so constant at Church or at the Play House. A tenth[?] into rather to one labourer than as they[?]: not to two. For my own part this I know, that since I began first to think /consider/ with myself what duty was and what mankind were born to {a length of time greater than that which produces all this joy} never has this strain of sentimental sympathy which prides itself on the sacrifice of the many to the few presented itself to my conception in any better character /colour/ than that of the depth or height of immorality, travelling along the scale upward or downward, as you please. In cribbage as in any other kind of sport, yes: ten or any greater number: but in politics /morality/ any more than in morality /politics/ never in my arithmetic could a man by being a king, appear capable of telling[?] for any more than one.
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