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the more they hear of it the business from respectable people of different descriptions,
the more difficult they may find it to consult indolence or
private affection or interest to the prejudice of public interest. The
mention you so kindly made of it and intend making of it
promises therefore, besides being so honourable to the projector, to be
of real use to the project. Next to adopting it, the greatest favour
they could do me would be to reject it: they would then leave
my brother at liberty to go to one country where he is pressingly
summoned, and me to another where I am invited by the
Department of Paris to do what I am sollicitidg to do here.
In some opinions it will reflect no great credit on the Ministry
It is for the Ministry to judge whether how far it will be for
their credit, that if a man with such a proposal in his hand
should after so many years hard labour and a year and
a half's patience be driven into a foreign country by the inability
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Jeremy Bentham |
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