1 Oct 1809

Parl y Reform

B. I. Necessity

Ch. 18 Idol-Worship Mischief

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Decimius[?] ortuperandi[?]

1. Habit of laudation

2. Habit of referring measures to the personal accommodation of the King

Proceeding on this supposition, supposing accordingly that the class composed of

those by whom the interest of the ten, the sixteen or the sixty millions is preferred

to that of one man {or one family} is a class not purely ideal, not compleatly

destitute of individuals, I will /propose/ in the course of this chapter to venture

so far as to endeavour to represent to any fellow-subjects /fellow-countrymen/, such

of them as are not steeled against reason /argument/ either by sinister interest or

interest-begotten prejudice, the mischief they do to themselves and their fellow

subjects by giving encouragement and circulation to discourses and modes of speaking

which without directly asserting that the preference /interest of the one/ is due to

the interest of the one, ground themselves on the indirect assumption /would be

altogether without ground, but for this trust/ of this most preposterous and

pernicious of all principles.