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I have the greatest pleasure in leaving here that the behaviour
of their countrymen in the & was such

Indeed I can assure your Lordship faces the several opportunities I have had
that throughout the Empire the partiality

The necessity of serving to acquire military rank & the necessity of military
rank to acquire consideration This circumstance & this alone
This is the circumstance which spring of all their actions. The servility in
their Character is shows the effect of hope not of fear.

A striking instance how much the Character & behaviour of a man
depends on a particular circumstance he may be independent of bodily
restraint. In a part of the country where labour is cheap and
where the licentiousness about great affects so much makes hard
labour so unacceptable a man is Robber & Assassin transported to
a distant

To say the truth the little hopes I have of that the observations I have
made during the time I have spent in the study of the of the
Marine will meet with any attention from those at present in favour
at home, have induced me to examine more surely, the practices
of work as I could turn my to account the studies which I had before
resolved to confine to the marine. The observations I have made
I think I have means of seems to have suggested themselves of making
a in this country in a shorter time such a fortune as may in lieu of
countries with in favour in my own give me insight enough to turn
to some account the my former studies.




Identifier: | JB/539/275/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.

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1781-??-??

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539

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275

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002

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Correspondence

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Penner

Jeremy Bentham

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