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Letter 3
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What says Your Lordship to this passage? Is Your
Lordship ready to subscribe proposition of the public spirited
and truly noble Duke? Is it a treasure? Is it sound doctrine?
or is ini it in Utopia only that it is to pass for tor ture?
Would the founders and supporters of improved colonies
subscribe to it? Does Your Lordship know of any other person
who would subscribe to it
true or is it romance? The
What says Your Lordship to this question? Has any such
light as the noble writer speaks of ever found its way into
our Treasury? the seat of government here? One pair of
stairs — two pair of stairs — Garret or any other floor
of the ? Treasury Chambers
In the mind of the noble writer the idea of obligation
it is evident from this passage had some how or other become
connected with the idea of the seals of State. Your Lordship
smiles: but Your Lordships candour will observe
in his behalf where he was writing — in America;
writing in America, and living in low company — amongst
Quakers.
What is rather more to the purpose there was once a time
when an idea not very dissimilar appears to have been floating must have been floating
in the mind of an Honourable Gentleman whose official
seat is not many Yards distant from Your Lordship's. "With
"respect to Your Convict plan (says Mr Vansittart in
"the last letter I have been honoured with by that gentleman )
dated 10th September 1800)" I have not yet had an opportunity
"of consulting with Lord Pelham, on whose decision the
business
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Identifier: | JB/116/049/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
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not numbered |
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116 |
panopticon versus new south wales |
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049 |
letter 3 |
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text sheet |
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jeremy bentham; john herbert koe |
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37582 |
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