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<!-- This page is organised in two columns. The word Anderson is written in pencil at the top of the second column --> <p> than their former one, certainly widely<lb/> different at any rate from that of beggary.<lb/> All anxiety for <del>their</del> subsistence<lb/> would be at an end, and they would <lb/> find themselves relieved from the drudgery<lb/> part of their work by men who would<lb/> look up to them as a superior race<lb/> of beings. The circumstances of the <lb/> two Englishmen whom by my Brother<lb/> found contented and happy <add> on the Princes estate which is but 20 miles from that in question</add> insomuch<lb/> that one of them had sent over for his <lb/> wife <add> is such as</add> cannot but afford a strong<lb/> assurance to other adventurers: if Englishmen<lb/> who have left a flourishing<lb/> country as I believe that about Newcastle<lb/> is find themselves the better by the <lb/> change, how must it be with Scotchmen<lb/> coming from a country which is <lb/> in the situation you describe? <del>it</del> An Englishman<lb/> who wherever he is, is apt to be <lb/> a discontented animal is I believe as <lb/> remarkable for the difficulty he finds in <lb/> accommodating himself to the circumstances<lb/> of foreign countries, as a Scotchman<lb/> is for the contrary facility.</p> <p> | <!-- This page is organised in two columns. The word Anderson is written in pencil at the top of the second column --> <p> than their former one, certainly widely<lb/> different at any rate from that of beggary.<lb/> All anxiety for <del>their</del> subsistence<lb/> would be at an end, and they would <lb/> find themselves relieved from the drudgery<lb/> part of their work by men who would<lb/> look up to them as a superior race<lb/> of beings. The circumstances of the <lb/> two Englishmen whom by my Brother<lb/> found contented and happy <add> on the Princes estate which is but 20 miles from that in question</add> insomuch<lb/> that one of them had sent over for his <lb/> wife <add> is such as</add> cannot but afford a strong<lb/> assurance to other adventurers: if Englishmen<lb/> who have left a flourishing<lb/> country as I believe that about Newcastle<lb/> is find themselves the better by the <lb/> change, how must it be with Scotchmen<lb/> coming from a country which is <lb/> in the situation you describe? <del>it</del> An Englishman<lb/> who wherever he is, is apt to be <lb/> a discontented animal is I believe as <lb/> remarkable for the difficulty he finds in <lb/> accommodating himself to the circumstances<lb/> of foreign countries, as a Scotchman<lb/> is for the contrary facility.</p> <p> The notion of <del>not</del> converting <del><gap/> </del> a <lb/> Millwright after the Mill is built into a <lb/> <add>Miller</add> </p> <pb/> <!-- second column --> <p> Miller seems to me not a bad idea: the <lb/> metamorphosis is surely not an unnatural<lb/> one. The conductor of the Mill from <lb/> having been the maker of it will be <lb/> able the better to spy out <del>any</del> from time <lb/> to time what repairs are wanting, and <lb/> the more <sic>timeously | ||
</sic> to apply them: if in <lb/> his <hi rend="underline"> Miller-state</hi> he is paid <foreign>pro rata,</foreign> <lb/> he will be interested in the strongest <lb/> degree in the success | </sic> to apply them: if in <lb/> his <hi rend="underline"> Miller-state</hi> he is paid <foreign>pro rata,</foreign> <lb/> he will be interested in the strongest <lb/> degree in the success of his labours in <lb/> his <hi rend="underline">Mill-wright</hi> state: and<lb/> the comparative ease of his latter state<lb/> will be a sort of <hi rend="underline">requiem</hi> and reward <lb/> for his labours in the former. — I <lb/> wonder whether a good Mill-<hi rend="underline">wright</hi><lb/> would be able to copy any <add> improved</add> ploughs<lb/> or other instruments of husbandry<lb/> which we might take over or send<lb/> for from hence. Among those which I <lb/> have seen at Sharp's the Ironmongers<lb/> in Fenchurch Street London is one <lb/> for levelling land that struck me as particularly<lb/> ingenious. Suppose the surface <lb/> of a field broken and <sic>render'd</sic> less fit for <lb/> mowing reaping &c, by little hillocks.<lb/> When you have got it on a hillock<lb/> by means of a particular manifestation, <lb/> you make it bite as deep as you please,<lb/> and it <del>tak</del> shies of more or less of the <lb/> surface of the hillock, which it carries in <lb/> a kind of pan which by another turn of </p> | ||
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than their former one, certainly widely
different at any rate from that of beggary.
All anxiety for their subsistence
would be at an end, and they would
find themselves relieved from the drudgery
part of their work by men who would
look up to them as a superior race
of beings. The circumstances of the
two Englishmen whom by my Brother
found contented and happy on the Princes estate which is but 20 miles from that in question insomuch
that one of them had sent over for his
wife is such as cannot but afford a strong
assurance to other adventurers: if Englishmen
who have left a flourishing
country as I believe that about Newcastle
is find themselves the better by the
change, how must it be with Scotchmen
coming from a country which is
in the situation you describe? it An Englishman
who wherever he is, is apt to be
a discontented animal is I believe as
remarkable for the difficulty he finds in
accommodating himself to the circumstances
of foreign countries, as a Scotchman
is for the contrary facility.
The notion of not converting a
Millwright after the Mill is built into a
Miller
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Miller seems to me not a bad idea: the
metamorphosis is surely not an unnatural
one. The conductor of the Mill from
having been the maker of it will be
able the better to spy out any from time
to time what repairs are wanting, and
the more timeously
to apply them: if in
his Miller-state he is paid pro rata,
he will be interested in the strongest
degree in the success of his labours in
his Mill-wright state: and
the comparative ease of his latter state
will be a sort of requiem and reward
for his labours in the former. — I
wonder whether a good Mill-wright
would be able to copy any improved ploughs
or other instruments of husbandry
which we might take over or send
for from hence. Among those which I
have seen at Sharp's the Ironmongers
in Fenchurch Street London is one
for levelling land that struck me as particularly
ingenious. Suppose the surface
of a field broken and render'd less fit for
mowing reaping &c, by little hillocks.
When you have got it on a hillock
by means of a particular manifestation,
you make it bite as deep as you please,
and it tak shies of more or less of the
surface of the hillock, which it carries in
a kind of pan which by another turn of
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Correspondence/copy |
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Jeremy Bentham |
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