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[Copyist's hand] 1818 July 30 -
[Copyist's hand]

1818 July 30 -

Parl Ref Bill

Reasons

II. Electors who?

Universality

Reading

Property bad qualification

Reading better

14

12

14

14

Independently of personal hostility mere difference of opinion especially when manifested in presence suffices to generate heat surmounting the degree marked temperate: {from heat comes want of candour:} by extra-heat candour in a greater or less proportion scarce ever fails of being dissipated: candour, and with it sincerity in other shapes; {for of the various shapes in which it may be seen to clothe itself want of candour is one.}
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    That reading goes to this point and that in the most direct /immediate/ way is altogether Manifest. That if at all it is only in an unimmediate way that property tends to this same point is equally manifest.

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