[clxiv. 200]

1820 June 26 1822 Aug. 7

Emancipation Spanish?

?. Factitious Dignity

Factitious Dignity

K. Instrument of delusion - Factitious Honor: uses in exposing it

The English have for a long time been subsisting upon the reputation for liberalism etc. They are no longer an extensively independent but an almost exclusively [...?...?].

Look to Ireland among the ruling few for one who has been [...?] a smaller number have been labouring for the extermination of the greater

Dignity! Dignity! The idea of imposture and depravity in all other shapes is in my mind inseparably attached to this word dignity - imposture, as employing it as /for/ a cover for depravity in all other shapes: depravity in all other shapes, as being meant to be exercised /practiced/ under cover of a cloak so well adapted to the purpose