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Note (b) continued
If those claims, the true and only sources of loss in a pecuniary
shape were inserted, Mr Bentham would entreat it as
a favour if not as a right would entreat it as a favour
that in this part the words loss of time and for his trouble may be
omitted. Except, in the way in question in which not
a particle of pecuniary profit could has been received by
him untill a vast saving had been made to the public
Mr Bentham never has at any part of his life proposed
to sell to make out of his time to the public in
any official or other such situation as an official one.
It would To him it would be a grievous mortification to
hear anyone say – here then is what for so many
years your time is worth – this and no more. Whe
In this circumstance wherein was the arbiter of his destiny
would in the regard due in general to public economy
find but too cogent a reason for reducing the compensation
money to the lowest pitch for which any reason could be
found, and thus the disappointment already sustained inflicted
and the impoverishment which on that supposition would
accompany follow t would in the shape of publickly
declared contempt on the one part, and humiliation on the
other experience an aggravation which, it is hoped
will no be deemed merited.
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