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1791-1-23
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206
This on a separate sheet.
On my part I should expect wish to stipulate
1 To have the office assured to the Contractor during good behaviour
a phrase which the
ordinary terms means for life, but which on terms
like the above would mean simply what it says.
2 The station of Jailor is not in common account
a very elevated one. The addition of Contractor is not has not
much calculated much tendency to raise it. Education, profession, connections
and occupations and objects considered, I hope I should not
be thought unreasonable in wishing to be preserved from
being altogether confounded with those by whom
those situations have been hitherto filled, and from finding
myself become a sufferer in estimation for rendering by having
performed a public service. In this view two expedients present
themselves: one is to beg to have to insist on the acceptance the assurance of your assistance toward attaining a
Parliamentary sanction for of the offer of standing examination in manner
above mentioned;
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Jeremy Bentham |
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