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<p>agent, as you would in vain have looked for<lb/>in any other person. Ask yourself Sir, whether this<lb/>was not the case?<hi rend="superscript">+</hi> a mine share, <del>you well know</del> <add>nobody knows</add><lb/><add>better than yourself,</add> is not a commodity to go to market with. The<lb/>rules of ordinary prudence are against having<lb/>anything to do with them <add>in any way</add> <del>upon any terms</del>: much <lb/>more against laying out money in the purchase<lb/>of them, especially so vast a sum as 4,000<lb/>guineas for a single sixty-fourth. If anything<lb/>could tempt a man of common prudence to venture<lb/>upon making himself an exception, it must be either<lb/>a judgment found by himself upon due examination<lb/>of the circumstances and value of <del>some</del> <add>the</add> particular<lb/>mine <del>that is</del> in question, or a reliance, and that<lb/>a very implicit one, upon the probity and judgment<lb/> of some other person whom he looks upon<lb/>as qualified for so delicate a task. Do you<lb/>have any person whom you think <add>so well</add> qualified<lb/>as M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Henderson? Do you know of any <add>other</add> man<lb/>but M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Henderson, on whose <gap/> M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Blair,<lb/>a man by no means ignorant or <add>negligent of</add> <del>unattentive to</del><lb/>his own interest, would at such a hazard have<lb/><gap/> his faith? For the impracticability of<lb/>getting a purchaser in any other way, I need<lb/>only appeal to yourself. <del>I <gap/></del> I <gap/><lb/> to</p> | |||
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3 J. B. for Henderson to Gullet
agent, as you would in vain have looked for
in any other person. Ask yourself Sir, whether this
was not the case?+ a mine share, you well know nobody knows
better than yourself, is not a commodity to go to market with. The
rules of ordinary prudence are against having
anything to do with them in any way upon any terms: much
more against laying out money in the purchase
of them, especially so vast a sum as 4,000
guineas for a single sixty-fourth. If anything
could tempt a man of common prudence to venture
upon making himself an exception, it must be either
a judgment found by himself upon due examination
of the circumstances and value of some the particular
mine that is in question, or a reliance, and that
a very implicit one, upon the probity and judgment
of some other person whom he looks upon
as qualified for so delicate a task. Do you
have any person whom you think so well qualified
as Mr Henderson? Do you know of any other man
but Mr Henderson, on whose Mr Blair,
a man by no means ignorant or negligent of unattentive to
his own interest, would at such a hazard have
his faith? For the impracticability of
getting a purchaser in any other way, I need
only appeal to yourself. I I
to
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