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Objections Bicetre Proposal
of the revolted Africans, is it for you to repulse an
Englishman who offers promises to save your afflicted
countrymen from filth, idleness, vice, pestilence
and famine? You in whom patriotism is not
more conspicuous than general benevolence, will
you spurn a national benefit to your because it is an
English hand that offers it?
It is for the Assembly to consider which
it is deserves most weight this objection, such as
is is, or the proposal of whatever advantage may depend
upon the execution of the invention into the hands
of the inventor. Should the adoption acceptance of the invention and the acceptance of the inventor be deemed inseparable
to the degree measure of responsability presented by
this foreigner may be boldly pronounced such
not only equal to but superior to any thing which it
would have been in the power of any other person,
orforeigner or native to afford. No other person
could afford it, because no other plan of construction
or management could afford it. With any On no other plan
than this no could any manager could subject himself to so strict
a responsibility: on no other plan could the public
hold him to it. On no other sort of building could a
manager possess any thing like the assurance of the
good behaviour
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