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concern if you were to treat it lightly and bear it with
indifference. I likewise took occasion to introduce
(with a little variation in the words) what you had said
in your last but one, that it was a cruel stroke
upon you to receive such language as you mentioned
from a quarter from whence one should naturally expect
encouragement. I told him withal, that I imagined his
letter was written at a time when he was out
of order — This he seemed to admitt: and talked in
an half-serious half-comical way, of writing to you
to beg your pardon.

We then enter'd upon the subject of the accounts — I told
him, that supposing the measure to be right, there was no reason
to p that method to force it upon you in that manner, and that a
simple recommendation would answer the purpose much
better. To that he added replied that he had tried that, &
found it ineffectual, that he had been talking to you about
it at different times for these two or three years,
and had not been able to prevail with you to oblige
him in that particular.

Really, entre nous, my dear Sam, I don't see the
extreme hardship and difficulty in it that you do;
nor do I see, considering what a point he makes of it
how you can avoid complying with his desires, without
subjecting yourself to the reproach of obstinacy.

I could not say any thing against the utility of the practice,
nor could I possibly say any thing that could

Identifier: | JB/538/024/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 538.
Date_1	1776-05-03	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	024	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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