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<p>apprehensions may interest him in the choice.<lb/> Still less will your Lordships think of sending<lb/> either of your Secretaries (it is not of the person<lb/> that your Memorialist speaks of but of the situation)<lb/> still less will your Lordships think of deputing any<lb/> person from such an office, and that a single person, <lb/> on so invidious and inauspicious an errand: - to<lb/> make for such a purpose <add>a</add> perambulation would<lb/> the envisions of the Metropolis: to make a statistical<lb/> survey of a peculiar kind, with a table of Villas<lb/> and their inhabitants in his hand, and with a<lb/> calculation, as it will be said, of political learnings<lb/> & degrees of influence in his bosom: to draw around<lb/> each favoured abode a circle of so many miles<lb/> radius (for one of a mile or some such matter is<lb/> protested against as to narrow) within which no<lb/> such ignoble foot, as that of a reformer of those<lb/> by whom the peace of Society is disturbed, should<lb/> presume to penetrate: to avoid the estate of a<lb/> leading and well-affected Member of Parliament,<lb/> with much more care than a waste where not a<lb/> drop of water was to be found, and that of a Member<lb/> of the Cabinet with much more <sic>sollicitude</sic><lb/> than a marsh, the certain seat of pestilence: <lb/> in a word, to look over the four counties for<lb/> some desert (since deserts within the four counties<lb/><add>still</add></p> | |||
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apprehensions may interest him in the choice.
Still less will your Lordships think of sending
either of your Secretaries (it is not of the person
that your Memorialist speaks of but of the situation)
still less will your Lordships think of deputing any
person from such an office, and that a single person,
on so invidious and inauspicious an errand: - to
make for such a purpose a perambulation would
the envisions of the Metropolis: to make a statistical
survey of a peculiar kind, with a table of Villas
and their inhabitants in his hand, and with a
calculation, as it will be said, of political learnings
& degrees of influence in his bosom: to draw around
each favoured abode a circle of so many miles
radius (for one of a mile or some such matter is
protested against as to narrow) within which no
such ignoble foot, as that of a reformer of those
by whom the peace of Society is disturbed, should
presume to penetrate: to avoid the estate of a
leading and well-affected Member of Parliament,
with much more care than a waste where not a
drop of water was to be found, and that of a Member
of the Cabinet with much more sollicitude
than a marsh, the certain seat of pestilence:
in a word, to look over the four counties for
some desert (since deserts within the four counties
still
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