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8 + I. B Annuity Notes

Advantages Financial Period 1 Forborne Interest 15 2. Profit by interest forborne — of that — the interest will be receivable of individuals with less trouble — 2. The expectation of profit by interest forborne to
be received is grounded in the following proposition viz: That if, rather without any separate trouble
or expence a man has it in his power to receive
the same benefit That where the receipt of
any benefit is <add>in the first instance
</add> attended with any degree of trouble
or , how in considerable so ever, especially if
it be not with both trouble and expence</del>
viz. that if, without any separate trouble or expence at all a given the end can be attained, in any case, as
effectually as by means of a certain degree
of trouble and or expence, or both, the method by
which such trouble or expence is avoided will
be <add>in general</add> generally be preferred

viz: that in general a man will not bestow either trouble
or expence, a much less both, how inconsiderable
source the quantity, in compassing an end
which he has it in his power to compass to equal
perfection, without any such trouble or expence.

The trouble (not to speak of the and expence) attendant in the receipt
of the dividend interest in these Annuities, has
been reduced to the smallest denomination amount possible:
because the greater it had been, the greater the
danger, lest, by the contemplation of it, individuals
should, at the outset, have been repelled from the purchase of
these Annuities: but be the reduction ever so
great, & still the remainder will be something;
and this remainder, it may reasonably be expected,
should in the ordinary state of things be
sufficient to turn the scale. On the other hand, supposing




Identifier: | JB/002/167/001
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Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

5

Box

002

Main Headings

Annuity Notes

Folio number

167

Info in main headings field

Image

001

Titles

Category

Text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.

Page Numbering

A8

Penner

Jeremy Bentham

Watermarks

Marginals

Jeremy Bentham

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

906

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