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To Dundas

Sir, this sense of the value of authority in such a cast is no grievance: and though
you smiled at the time at the fraternity affection with
which you observed me clinging to the robes of the
Judges, drew a smile from you as if something of affectation had been
betrayed by the it, and through some awkwardness
of expression in a situation rather new to me I make no doubt afforded
afforded but too good a warrant for any suspicions
you might have conceived at the time at the time, you will flatter myself you will have already
see if not then at least by this time have been
satisfied by this time at least, that my backwardness at setting up reluctance to hazarding any
choice of mine my own in of competition with one that had been seen received the sanction
showed by of such an authority was not without
a practical and intelligible cause.⊞ ⊞ that should Judges would That if I were
obliged to look out for a new spot
I should prefer leaving that I it
than have the
absolutely to the trustees 12
Judges to whom the the choice of
place the spot I was to lay
out my money whose
that having to the
choosing it myself,
or even that if I were obliged
to stand by the choice
of others those Magistrates
would be the
persons of all others
whom I should desire wish
to commission for the
purpose, is more, I
must, state I call did
say, more assuredly
than I could
to say. But in the
case instance in question I
knew what their choice
had been. I knew it Whether the
single judgment of those Magistrates had it stood single would on a in a matter
like that be likely to be the best informed is what
as a general question it is needless to enquire: in
the individual case I was satisfied it concurred with mine with it: and whether the best or not, it was that of all others which there could
the least said against it, and being satisfied
that having made a good choice, I hope it
will not seem extraordinary to you that with such
a hold upon that choice, I should not be forward
to employ myself in making another a different one.
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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	036	Info in main headings field	to dundas
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f15 / f16 / f17 / f18
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	draft of letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39090
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