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Letter 3 XVI. Improved prisons
The fecundability of the 9 1/2 years ago accepted offer on my part to do the
same thing for £12 a year a head giving up only
a fourth part of the earnings has was by the same great
person been looked upon as so precarious, as to have
generated doubts in his great mind. The idea of paying
a limited sum for each post- the post-liberation offences, though
with such a fund for the support of it has been. I am
assured by a but too good authority set down as a mark of flightiness numbered among my flights.
Explanation he has taken care not to call for
He would not call for any explanation, for fear of being
satisfied with it: for it has given and, so unpardonable is the offence
it has given him, by it and
by the last accounts "he had not
made up his mind" whether he should not
for fear of my then raising myself after hearing having heard my
allegations confirmed over and over again by authorities of
which he knows the value, the result was "that he had
not made up his mind": and to this hour he continues
deliberating, and to the end of my life will proposes to himself to continue to
deliberate, if it can be done in his place, whether he shall
or shall not not ruin me, for fear of my so ruining myself, as aforesaid.
Identifier: | JB/116/498/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
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jeremy bentham |
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