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4. July 1800
Annuity Notes
To Pitt
Sir
I take the liberty of submitting to you
the skeleton of a proposed measure, [the objects title <add>entitled</add> as well as
subject matter of which are used not here be reported, sufficiently apparent
I submitt its in this its realisd state , unsupported without any
support by reasons. from argument : because to you , for one done
of the sort that might be useful <del> <add>of use
</add> this might be twenty
thus, to you would be superfluous , and repulsive .
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[+] [+] You will scarce but upon a jurist I believe , that has not received some consideration : whatsoever degree of use might be the sort of judgement that has grounded on it may have been the result of it .
On the term of utility useful efficacy or practicability, if I
were fortunately enough to learn , in relation to what points
it appeared upon a first glance objectionable to you , I would in any subsequent futur
communication on the subject confine myself to these
points . [Under both these heads after an one partly close
accumulation of about 1 1/2 year , I must confess myself
not to want for firstly will afford confidence.]
Any point much more strongly to our measures look much more to
the kind of : regarding the measures that
under your Administration have been taken with regard
to the principal point, the reduction of the National Debt,
as professed of a by far — much more rapid degree of efficacy, than
I have seen any where ascribed attributed to them: Possibly, I will venture to say,, + possibly these even you yourself may have yet some reason to ascribe refuse from it the to it: In this point of view there might possibly also be some use in your Customary a testing a view of this upon the prospect before it met the public eye. But this,
I spent days though however the principal object: if the proposed plan but this principal one, is by
no means the only one.
To look deep fear and wider and steadily into requires more leisure time,
than, a man the on whose attention <add>directions attention the present depends terms rests
can will easily . To me mean <add>me</add>, at last has not been
wanting, however it be with other requisites.
A Map of even though drawn by an masterful
hand, may not be without its use, even to a the most skillful
eye: because for in a truth so wen the first attempt
conquers maps conquer efforts conquer the greatest difficulty: and correct views are
then suggested by erronous ones. to a correct view