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a first choice: how much more time would it cost to get a second? What
spot too would it be expected of them to choose? — The same spot? — It would be actum agere: a solemn and expensive farce. A different spot? — but why a different one? — They must condemn their predecessors: they must
condemn themselves: for in respect of a considerable if not the greater part of the
number, the body is still composed of the same members. They must pass
condemnation then on the former choice: but on what grounds? and to
what purpose? I am sure I know not. Will it be said that the
neighbourhood was not on that occasion sufficiently considered? the pleasureableness
of the situation, and the tastes and feelings of its inhabitants? —
That can not be. A prior choice had actually been made: that prior choice rejected by this very tribunal, and on this very ground of objection,
and the choice of the present situation confirmed in preference to that prior
choice, as being unexceptionable on every point but more particularly on
this.

Nor would administration itself be less exposed to obloquy by such a
change. — What is it that could thus have turned them aside (it would be
said) from the line already marked out by impartial justice? — What but
the overweening influence of powerful individuals? After a three years search, the
best possible situation had been found out by the most competent authority:
but an Archbishop and an Earl stood in the way, and so a less fit one was
to be looked out for. Ministers too have their Villas that way: and they did
not choose to have their road darkened by such objects. Is the measure to
be postponed till a situation can be found for it, which is not within the

Identifier: | JB/119/135/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 119.
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Box	119	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	135	Info in main headings field
Image	004	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / d2 / d3 / d4
Penner		Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	39646
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