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Question 1
Building 2
So far then as concerns the erection of the building, all that at this turn I
can could possibly do towards the business would be⊞ ⊞ (after applying my
mind to the subject in
question get what occasional
information I
could get obtain from
my Brother and other
persons) the using my own
endeavours towards keeping down the expence; as a manifest surety for my doing so, and concurring as
I would ready to do and desirous of doing in any measure that in which case, to give the best possible and most manifest security for
my so doing I should be ready and desirous of concurring to concurr in
any efficient measures that should be suggested, for bringing my own personal interest in that
respect as near as possible into a coincidence with the interest of the public purse on
that behalf; upon the principle viz. upon some principle analogous in this respect to that which suggested the agreement, entered
into as above, with the late Mr Bunce
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If by being this particular I have occupied more of
the Committee's time than would have been wished
With respect of to one part of my engagement original offer to offer engagement and that
so material an one entered into in consequence and that of my own offer, and that so material
an one, Finding finding myself thus under the necessity of declaring
it out of my to be no longer in my power to fulfil it, one part of my engagement
and that so material an one, to preserve myself
from any such mortification, as that of letting seeing any
inevitable misfortunes imputed to me as faults; it seemed necessary
to me to be particular in shewing that this inability on
my part has had for its causes incidents altogether out of
my own controul, and such as were among the natural and obviously
probable results of the delays which the I was destined to experience.
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but then in point of frugality economy any more than
a comparatively small part advantage need be lost by this change. The
great saving If the principles of the plan itself be not disapproved the great
saving is upon the plan: that saving would be retained.
As to the difference between one Architect taken upon intimate
acquaintance, and with the benefit advantage of such mode of remuneration and adjustment of interests
as has been mentioned, and one Architect taken at a venture
and without any such advantage, a difference which would be ruinous
to an individual,
would to the public†
purse be no more than
a deduction from the
survey which would
originally have been
made.
† Mr Blackburns minimum was £200000 for
900 Prisoners: my maximum was £27000 for 1000 Prisoners.
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jeremy bentham |
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andre morellet |
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letter 2106, vol. 8 |
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