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treats you as calls you a madman for proposing it. The latter
part my of the observation my brother has already had
occasion in his own instance to see verified. About a year and a half ago He projected no improvement
in Time-piles for with a view to the Longitude, by keeping these always
in the same degree of temperature, and consequently
the and in it or the same degree
of expansion, what is stable more importance, & the oil in the same degree of , &
In This you see depends upon principles.
Mr Hornsby, Professor of what is called Natural Philosophy at Oxford,
but who ⊞ ⊞ said it could be madness in any one to encourage it, neither professes nor understands any
thing of Chymistry was in a rage at the first mention
of it, ⊞ nor could he listen to anything that could be
said in its favorbehalf. Dr Fordyce who understands
Natural Philosophy perfectly & is the most eminent
lecturer in Chymestry we have, saw nothing though
it possible: But Professor Hornsby is a member of
the Board of Longitude: Dr Fordyce, not. My
Brother therefore thought it adviseable to drop it: because
it was out of the Ship-building line, which my Father
pressed him not to wander from: because it would have
taken money to pursue it: and because he has understood
that Time keepers are likely to be brought
to the requisite degree of perfection upon other principles.

His knowledge and his speculations are by no
means confined to Natural Philosophy nor even to the studies relative nearby allied to it. Though he has
no memory for history and is less acquainted with facts
of that class than one could well imagine it possible for
a man with his education to be, he is by reflection
not its read in the science of Human Nature. I find very
few so capable as he is of assisting me in my metaphysical
and moral political disquisitions. Several of the articles in the
Table of Circumstances affecting Sensibility,† † Theory of Punishmt. Table II-At-II. are of his suggestion.
⊞ ⊞ To p.25. No 2

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Box	169	Main Headings
Folio number	109	Info in main headings field	letter to foster petersburgh
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 248, vol. 2	ID Number	56929
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