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I should be exceedingly sorry if Sir James or you should imagine

Your attachment to Old England cannot be greater than mine
my great ambition is one day or other to be able to distinguish myself
by being able in some way or other of doing some service to my country. It is that
I did not for by any means lose sight of that desire by the plan I
proposed to follow. One way at last in which I have of distinguishing myself
is by some mechanical contrivances which

My idea was that where a contrivance of kind requires
experiments to bring it to perfection and I can find opportunities
of being them and at the same but people have without
any that the circumstance of the great advantage. it may be
if to this as a was not an objection with
of the nature which should deter me from it.

I do assure you Sir I to beg you to in my arts
& my claim to your friendship of which I am very far from having I could
meant only to know how pray you to you might approve of a countryman taking
such a step in case it was possible.

Davies
This is a passage in a letter from a friend of mine at I leave you guess
the author.

Identifier: | JB/539/246/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1781-09-??	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	246	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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