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experiment. I will be answerable for its not failing
whatever may be the case with the farming tax-farming experiment
on upon post-horses.

The pleasant part of the story is that by the same passage in which the experiment is so vehemently censured, we learn so we are informed that it that it the experiment in the midst
of all this condemnation, fire and smoke the experiment we are told
must
succeeded, and that beyond the calculations expectations
even of those the minister who proposed it, and not the shadow a
living creature the worse for it, nor so such as the shadow
of an inconvenience mentioned as having been so much as charged to have
flowed
from it. £50,000 addition expected: £94,000
produced: almost double. And after this, "it is
"hardly possible to discover even a plausible reason
"for so unjust and impolitic a regulation". Instead Has
of for would may not there be some better ground for saying
against. Has
not the printer been here been in fault?
instead of "for" may not we read against? In the
next edition I will indulge the hope of seeing this hasty
passage exposing
a very very useful book work cleared of this hasty
passage.

Note 2
Or shall we call this a reason? The difference A suceedan for we must not call it an advantage
whence did it arise? "principally from the impolitic
"addition made to the tax by the present
"minister" – The infallibility of the Minister is
no more an article of any creed than it is in that
of the honourable historian. One thing however
I


Identifier: | JB/119/030/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 119.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

119

Main Headings

panopticon; rationale of reward

Folio number

030

Info in main headings field

contract

Image

002

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

d1 / / / d4

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::floyd & co [britannia with shield emblem]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

arthur young

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

39541

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