JB/037/085/002

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1821 Aug. 15
J.B. to Portugueze Cortes

Well but says somebody, this implement instrument
speaking of why not present of yours why that talk all this talk
about it? why not send it to us at once?

Portuguese My friends! It is not yet made: and it is because
it is not yet made that do I thus offer it. Unless you give
Seeing now what I mean is meant by acceptance Acceptance being explained unless you give it that such acceptance,
perhaps I am not sure that it may be ever be never made: I am sure Without the
acceptance called for, what I am sure of is – that it will not be made either so quickly or so well without
that acceptance in with it. That I am full sure At the age of three and seventy
the current of the blood thoughts as well as of the mind runs slow: something is wanting, something from without
is wanting to quicken it.

That something is not gold:
it is not power: it is not factitious dignity in any shape
it is the well-grounded prospect of the having rendered and being known
to have rendered to mankind upon an extensive scale permanently
useful service.

To Accept from the Spanish Cortes was to accept the
whole or nothing. To Accept from Bentham – to accept from the
unplaced, the untitled, the insignificant ricken individual –
to accept from the man in whose support on whose side favour neither force nor
intimidation, nor corruption nor delusion – neither force nor
sword nor gold nor crowns nor coronets nor metres are
at work – to accept from such a hand is to accept when you see it just
so much as you like of in it and no more. Were you to
pronounce give your acceptance what would you have to fear? If
when in your hands the value worth of it would be but small little,
the price would be still less. I am not Lord Beresford:
I am not Lord anything. I have no soldiers, I have
no men of war at my back. No sword have I to
threaten you with: nothing in any case more afflictive that the discretion or
your constituents and one day perhaps your own.

Identifier: | JB/037/085/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1822-07-07	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code rationale
Folio number	085	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b8 / e9
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	11300
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