19 Jan y. 1810

Parl y. Reform

'.4

Ch.18. Sp.

'.4. Friendship's province

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A /The/ disposition to pay debts - that vulgar /coarse/ and ordinary spaces of justice a disposition to pay debts this disposition though not so charming and refund sentimental a disposition /virtue or virtue's [...?]/ as friendship, is at least as necessary an one. Being a plain man according to my notion about it is that when a man pays his debts it is out of his own purse that he ought to pay them /is the proper purse for them to be paid out of/, not the nation's. according to the Right Honorable Orator's if his notions about justice correspond with this notion of his about friendship is that, if it suit a man better to take the /nation's/ purse of the nation to pay them out of his own, so he may {and welcome}: and if he can manage /contrive/ matters so as not to be punished for it, /so doing,/ besides saving the money, he may gain the praise of virtue.