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Letter 3d XVI. Improved prisons

Observations on No. 8. The A supposition tacitly but certainty
included in the hypothetical offer thus made by the worthy Magistrate
is that the rules on the other part some regard
would paid to the rules of common honesty, and that he would that the County
would not be made Bankrupt to him as Parliament has been to me:—and that
he would not, after he had advanced his capital had been advanced
upon the faith of it and Acts of Parliament if necessary
obtained for it, see the execution of it set down referred in petto for the Greek
calend, by any such person as the successive predecessor of the great person he
becomes afterwards so afraid of flattering, not to speak of and by the successors
of that predecessor.

But the terms, Sir?—what say you to this gentleman's
terms? not to speak of the Philadelphia—my Lord
Your Lordship will have the goodness to understand, that in
the Panopticon case the most favourite formidable powerful of all most objections
were was that the terms were so unfavourable to the possessors born too hard upon the possessors: so hard
so much that the fulfillment of them would be impossible. This was
what I learned for years together I hard from all though always in whispers
quarters: not a syllable from to the opposite effect from on the other side.
It was not till t'other day that 14 several years after acceptance
that I heard so much as a limit was dropped of their being
too "great": and by this time all this was at a time when, so that
a ground for relinquishment could be made out of their magnitude
whether they should be objected to as too great high or
too low not great enough or on both grounds together was evidently become a
mater of perfect most compleat indifference to the admirers of arithmetic and
its calculations.

A wager was laid and once upon [a] time were that for four hours together
a man should stand upon the Pont Neuf offering five new
and good crowns for a , and that in all that time he
should not be able to pass off fifty upon those terms. The
gentlemen I had to deal with were no more to be taken in
the public at Paris upon the Pont Neuf.

This gentleman certainly
would have thought he knew what
he was about: but
the great persons he
is so much afraid of
being accused of flattering
would have known better
things. The more
beneficial in his own
conception he had to
the public he had
in his own view of the
matter made his terms
the greater the scorn
with which he would have
been looked down upon
by such grace high personages:
and if on any other
occasion he had never
been guilty of thinking
for the public, this
too would have been
numbered among
added to the number
of "his flights"

Identifier: | JB/116/492/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	492	Info in main headings field	letter 3d
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	38025
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