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would go abroad into the world. I do not say they
would in every particular be the true ones: in my own
instance I am sure they are not: for no such arrangement, though the £6,000 a year were all clear
gain to me, would satisfy me. I do not say they
are the true ones: but they have so much the appearance
of being true, and the imputation convey'd
by them is at least so plausible, that
I must confess, I can not stand it. Were my
inclination ever so ductile, I could not being myself
to take a step so perfectly in the teeth
of all my former professions and all my former
practice: forgive me, Sir, but I have not nerves for
it. In Lord Spencer's conception, I understand,
his Lordship's receptacle of possible villas is a
sort of Naboth's Vineyard: and myself a sort of
would-be David in miniature. According to
him, it is the possible Villa that is my great
object. Sir, the possible Villa is an object to me, it is true: so was the value of the handkerchief
an object to Othello: an object of three and
sixpence. Bating a fancy proportioned to an object
of some such amount, my humble residence, the little rus in urbe that
you saw, satisfies me: if it did not, the supposed £6,000

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Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	073	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d15 f11 / d16 f12
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public	letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39127
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