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26 Jany 1802 C11 17 3

27 May 1749
Whites refusal
to deliver the deeds.
pleaded to deaf ears.[+] [+] I called to mind
the text in Ld Chesterfield,
and saw it
was a time to
profit by it. "Then" (says I) for in conclusion
"my the course for me to take will be
"to address myself to the Treasury, saying
"that without an express authority from them
"you do not look upon yourself in at liberty warranted in
"without your express authority to deliver up put me in
possession of to me these deeds." Such were the soft colours
put upon a harsh refusal given with his usual
kindness What he did say I translated into
what he ought to have said: because what he really
(a) in
mode
said could not have been given back to him
without wearing the colour of an accusation.
Given back to him Repeated to him in his own terms his
the greatest Insolence, unless where not blinded
by passion, can is
scarcely bear the
reflection of
at its vices
shocking him
with the reflected
sound of his own
words for a unless
heated by passion, the
the most insolent of men
can not bear the reflection
image of his own insolence
own language would have come back to him, in
the form of an accusation. Instead of what giving back
he did say there gave him what he might
have said another man a gentleman might have said
in his place. The game was thus even,
at the very moment when I had begun to
give it up as desperate. — I got the deeds.

Was this native, <add> </add> or inspired? — the result work
of humour or reflection? worn generally,
White's refusal
how to be accounted
for — or put on specially for me? Questions these
which I will not undertake to solve, but they
are by no means questions of mere curiosity —
questions having for their drift and subject matter the mere
idiosyncrasy of Mr White. If inspired, for instance
by his old friend and patron as well as companion
of all hours Mr Rose, then was the purchase a silence
of

Identifier: | JB/121/309/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 121.
Date_1	1802-01-16	Marginal Summary Numbering	Not numbered
Box	121	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	309	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.	Page Numbering	E3 / F17
Penner		Watermarks	1800
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	001
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