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12. Apology
for delay
I hope I have not been the means of detaining
you. I could have given you nearly the equivalent
of all this the day after I saw you. But I
wrote it entirely over again to put it in a clear
shape, and beside that then I have had to copy it: You [+]
[+] besides that
there was a
good deal to
be decided before
any thing could
be written. Two
Two great establishments
suspended, as you
were pleased to say
on my account
cry aloud for
every exertion
I am capable
of
perceive I hope that you have to do with a man
who when he underta takes a business in hand does
not trifle with it.</del> The zeal you were pleased to
express in the business is contagious and has a full
right to be seconded.

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Idea respecting
confidence
Securities
against peculation
I had rather not have found It was with reluctance I <add>The only unpleasing part of this business <add>it is the finding</add></add> myself obliged to mention
money, inconsiderable as the matter <add>amount is,</add> after the scenes of peculation you were
mentioning speaking of to me, carried on by persons who of whom many antecedently to experience must have had claims to
confidence equal at least to any I can pretend to.
Accounts minute, distinct and frequent and public with I
a readiness or rather an eagerness to to give reasons for every thing & to
answer all sorts of questions interrogations, or rather to anticipate an eagerness
and as far as may be to anticipate them, will be found I presume the best security.
against such a disease. It is not uncommon to stickle Some people
upon for blind confidence: Me You can not flatter gratify me more
than by connecting with me the means of reducing confidence to its minimum , & putting
it it in the most effectual manner out of my power to do wrong. The frankness of
which your conversation gave me such abundant
reducing to its
minimum the
quantity of confidence
reposed
necessary to be reposed
on me

Identifier: | JB/117/040/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	12-16
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	040	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	draft of letter 711, vol. 4	ID Number	38657
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