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3 Jany 1801
§.1 Purchase of Ld Salisbury's on the proposal of Mr Long

I hope therefore I shall not suffer fall too low be sunk too low in your
Lordship's good opinion for the credit estimation by the degree of confidence
after all my experience, I must confess I at that time your reposed to in Mr Long. It will not might may not have been much to the credit of
a man's sagacity I must confess, to be have been outwitted,
had such been the case, by either Secretary: but when facts – the very
materials for judgment – are out of sight in the dark – all
understandings are all upon a par; and any
advantage superiority in point of punctuation, had any such advantage been my lot, might have stood me in no better stead than the conducting one any such only
conducted to lead a man
into an apt error, which a
mind of more ordinary mould would have escaped.
In short had I been even possessed the spirit of the faculty of seeing into hearts, a
and read as much of the matter in by
the way the light of prophecy, as your Lordship will see have
by the simple seen of it, in the words of this faithful narrative, should your patience
hold you to the end of it, even then on that
supposition, I could have done no otherwise
than I did. If Even if I had not been deceived,
I could no do have done no better than to appear so.⊞2 ⊞2 Had this proposition been rejected, so for the same reason, should every other. Preliminary steps 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 could have been can be introduced. All
other resources had already failed me: from this I had
something to gain and nothing at all is lost if by it
the accommodation could not be afforded to the
noble Marquis without my signature: and
the land – the inapplicable and unemployable
land – though nothing as compensation,
would still be something, as an evidence
and a pledge.

By such a step, or any step by which any thing
were done, my condition could not but be
required 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 you friend me, have been a favour,
in


Identifier: | JB/117/238/001
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1802-01-03

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117

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panopticon

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238

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purchase of ld salisbury's on the proposal of mr long

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001

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1

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recto

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f10

Penner

jeremy bentham

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Notes public

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38855

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