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-dation of douceur in proportion to the gradation
of public situation and fortune, might at first
sight be the most obvious plan. But, if I might be
permitted to advise, as the abhorrence testified
to the nuisance is, not in the inverse, but in the
direct ratio of the distance, so should the quantum
of douceur applied to conquer that abhorrence.
And as to the persons who would be to have the
nuisance under their very noses, as they are whimsical
enough to be fond of it, and are ready to
declare themselves so, as it is no nuisance to
them, they would have no pretensions to diminish
the fund created for the benefit of their nicer neighbours.
But I beg pardon for applying so disrespectful
an epithet as that of whimsical to such
of the gentlemen as have the misfortune to be undiscontented,
for if I have not been misinformed,
you, Sir, according to your declarations, would, as
well as Mr Nepean, have been of the undiscontented
party, had you been in their place. Convinced
that under these circumstances, had they
been all present to your mind, nothing but the importunity
of such of the gentlemen whom you can
not avoid seeing, and who have inevitable access to you

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	077	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d23 f19 / d24 f20
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39131
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