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all understandings are all upon a par and any superiority
in point of penetration, had any such advantage been my
lot, might have stood me in no better stead, than the
conducting me into an error, which a mind of more ordinary
mould would have escaped. In short has I even
possessed the faculty of seeing into hearts and read as
much of the matter by the light of prophecy as your
Lordship, will have seen of it in the cause of this faithful
narrative, should your patience hold you to the end
of it, even on that supposition, I could have done no.
otherwise than I did. Even if I had not been deceived,
I could have done no better than to appear so. Had this
proposition been rejected, so for the same reason should
every other. Preliminary steps they might not be (as in the
event they were not) followed by conclusive ones: but if conclusive
steps are ever to be taken it is only by preliminary
steps they can be introduced. All other resources had already
failed me: from this I had something to gain & nothing
at all to lose by it. The accommodation could not be afforded
to the Noble Marquis without my signature: and the land —
the inapplicable & unemployable land — though nothing as
a compensation, would still be something as an evidence &
as a pledge.

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J.B. & Hopson's
chance choice.

By such a step, or any step by which any thing
were done, my condition coul dnot but be made better:
worse it could not be.A negative, so it were but a clear
& and peremptory one, would, in the situation in which that
offer found me, have been a favour, in comparison of the
treatment I had been enduring for near five years and
a half without reckoning three years spent in sollicitation
without notice. Whatever choice gentlemen might this be pleased to indulge me with was precisely a Hopson's choice. What

Identifier: | JB/117/200/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	10 continued, 11
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	200	Info in main headings field	narrative
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f8
Penner		Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	38817
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