JB/169/131/004

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J.B. for Henderson to Gullet

and commissions to which they gave occasion, coming
successively upon the carpet one after another and
at scatter'd times, did not make in your mind
that simultaneous forcible impression impression, which having them
lay on presenting themselves to my view at once,
they do upon mine. At the time when you
gave him the trouble, you intended perhaps to
make it up to him: when the time came, the
intention had died away, or ano been driven out
of mind by other objects. Possibly a little parsimory
may have mixt itself unperceived with
the inadventence. We are all of us unequal inconsistent
creatures: we have our fits of parsimony and our
fits of generosity and exhibit quite different
character in the one from what we do in the
other. I know I it Upon recollection reflection I
have often convicted myself of this inconsistence.
and I believe there are very few people, who,
were they to they would take the trouble might not do the same.

What makes this construction appear the more
natural as with the more favourable, is the
unquestionable generosity I had almost said more than generosity of your conduct in another
instance. Before your good fortune throw denoted you to Mr
Henderson in your way you had tried for purchasers
ineffectually through other channels. Amongst
others persons you had applied to a Mr (I

Identifier: | JB/169/131/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 169.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	169	Main Headings
Folio number	131	Info in main headings field	jb for henderson to gullet
Image	004	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[monogram] propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	56951
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