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riot worth a farthings and he charges Ris highest price . According to the time dccijjfied the demand might not be unreasonable , and I am convinced lie G&nnot make the portrait better than it is ; ought I to demur at the payment , or what should I give him ?
No . 4 . A wealthy bachelor has two n <^ phevvs , the eldest William and the other Thomas ; one of them high in his favour , the other somewhat iivdis * grace * He makes his will , and after keeping it some years , and witnessing some variation in the conduct of his
nephews , so as to abate his confidence in the one and his resentment to the other , he dies without making any alteration in hia bequests . By some inexplicable error , which must for ever remain a mystery , ( and the lawyer who made the will is also
deceased , ) 1 % is stated , cc I give to my eldest nephew , Thomas * , 4 ? 10 , 0 Q 0 , and to tJm youngest , William , jgl M /* thus reveEsing ^ he rjaqies . If the law cannot possibly decide between these two conflicting * ctaiois , what verdict of equity shall do justice to them both £ This cage is founded on fact .
No . 5 . A notable housewife , whose word was never called in question , borrows six e ^ gs Qf her neighbour , and on breaking them finds four of them bad and totally unfit for use ; what number ought she to return ?
No . 6 . A rents a house of B , at £ 50 per annum ~ , being obliged to quit the premises , he agrees with C for their occupation on the same terms from the moment he leaves them for the remainder of his twelvemonth , and
confirms the engagement for his new ptettoises . B now says , that though I 10 has no voice in the business , and iro claim during the tifye included in the notice for any iftcmease of rent , yefc % t tfae ^ x ^ imtlon # f that time he must h& 1 ^ ^ St * as the immnd rek ;
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w / P ^ tww ^ dkBAm . P cjHfipbqpt ^ es h ^ <^^ J ^ v ^ p 4 i t ^|^| ^ l 9 s ^ . ^ i | wm ^ h ^ * 4 ^ 0 ^^^\ my § , " a ^ or 4 to i > ay ^| 6 ^ , ^ i i ^ ivpJUi ^ suit me to take theiiause for oti £ y ^ r Qnly . A ^^| Q ? fi ^ u ^ ^^^ na / H , and is thus saddled with double whose
rent for x \ y $ ens ^ m ^ y ^ n ^; l <^ a should thisbei . . ! : i , uU : " * ' Robbing Peter to p ^ 1 ? ai ^^ j an adage as old perhaps as Ottr ^ bl
guage , and is a prac ^ ce , perhaps , as universally reprobated . The . moral corresponding maxim is ** | l | at Xye should never do evil that gah&' m ^ iy come ; " this , however , is Violate ^ 6 r
undermirred in thousands of hottrty events which pass unnoticed ^ or eki ^ - nuated . Can any cases l > 6 " a ^ i ^ where the rule may be coti ^ cieiitiiiusi \ r infringed ? For instance , a cunintig ' fellow has overreached me to the
amount of five pounds in ^ qdexft ^ ti ^ a way that I have no means of reSr&s either by law or equity ; but tfiivfe an opportunity of purloining the amount from his property without the possibility of detection , and I sftall be
scrupulous not to exceed thq amount by one farthing 5 or , suppose a wealthy old curmudgeon to have an only sb ^ whose disposition is noble and gene- * rous , but who is kept so close in Ulsi income , that he is debarred from the means of doing good in any degree
ecjual to his wishes * He has tfie j > ow {* r of secreting to the amount of ^ J , 0 > O per annum from his fathers property ,, which he would scrupulously hftt Anonymously bestow upon public artd
patriotic institutions , and thus merdi ajitieipate what must eventttaijy be his own property . What sEiy lV (^ pur t virtue , integrity , justi < je , morally ov religion to these statena&nte"i Wilt
they allow any compybihiy ^ betweeii the extremes of yes otr tio ^ , 01 to correct one crime by coi ^ iiiiittuig abbther ? No . 8 . ¦" . . ' ! . - ,
Many yeai ^ s a ^ fo , wh , ^ n the jshpebuckle trade gave subsistence to per ** lLaps 20 , 000 persons in this country , though now so totally extinc ^ a wi ^ n of the name of Pinchbeck succeeded in making a mixture of naetjals a little superior in colour to what . the trade Had been accustomed , <* nd had the address to make jit pass , under hi& ow *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1826, page 672, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2554/page/36/
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