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An Estate may be capable of great
Improvement, and the Owner not
in a Capacity to derive the proper
Advantage from it. — But what is
not in his Power To-day, may be
for To-morrow: — And there is no
Authority, I apprehend, any-where
lodged, except in the Legislature, to
ouste a Man of his Property against
his Will, merely because he does not
make the most of it.
Now the Petitioners do not so much
as hint, that they ever applied to the
Owners of these Houses, for their
Opinion and Concurrence in this Proceeding
much less in the Enterprize,
and the Advantage expected from it
(which ought at least to have been at
their Option). — But having premised,
" That several of the said Pieces of
" Ground and Houses are either in
" Settlement, or the Property of In " fants,
Identifier: | JB/123/262/022 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 123.
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panopticon |
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review of the project for building a new square said to be for the use of westminster-school |
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printed material |
60 |
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recto |
(viii, 51) |
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bentham's annotated copy of the statute; enfolded in a full-size brown wrapper |
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