[xxxvi. 37]

1821. June 1 st.

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Constitution Finance

In the case of a public functionary, a man's income is compleatly certain: certain as to its existence, certain as to its quantity: in the other case, it is altogether uncertain in both respects.

In /In those/ Among Profit-seeking occupations at large there are those to a great extent in the whole in which, by the nature of the occupation, men are exposed to the capacity of deriving subsistence from that or any other source. With the single exception of military service by land or water, no such exposure has place in the case of public functionaries.*