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<p>some more necessary a use, than the giving it out<lb/> | |||
in indemnifications for voluntary damage, might<lb/> | |||
be found for it. But if I am wrong in this, and<lb/> | |||
money must at any rate be given out to quiet matters,<lb/> | |||
the persons on whom it might be bestowed,<lb/> | |||
I should conceive, with most economy as well as<lb/> | |||
propriety, are, not myself, who am so perfectly<lb/> | |||
contented with the provision so long ago made by<lb/> | |||
the law, but rather the gentlemen who are discontented<lb/> | |||
with it. Were a number not more than<lb/> | |||
half a dozen of them, for example, picked out for<lb/> | |||
this purpose, and picked out with due selection, I<lb/> | |||
would venture to undertake, Sir, there would not<lb/> | |||
be a man left who would ever give you my<lb/> | |||
trouble. I say, with most economy: for though<lb/> | |||
I confess myself but indifferently qualified for<lb/> | |||
entering into their conception of the damage, yet<lb/> | |||
in their instance a douceur to rather less amount<lb/> | |||
than the supposed £6,000 a year or £100,000<lb/> | |||
capital, added to the unliquidated principal<lb/> | |||
money) which would in my instance prove ineffectual,<lb/> | |||
would, in the other instance, I should flatter<lb/> | |||
myself, suffice. As to the proportions, an equal<lb/> | |||
distribution, or if differences be admitted, a gra<add>dation</add></p> | |||
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some more necessary a use, than the giving it out
in indemnifications for voluntary damage, might
be found for it. But if I am wrong in this, and
money must at any rate be given out to quiet matters,
the persons on whom it might be bestowed,
I should conceive, with most economy as well as
propriety, are, not myself, who am so perfectly
contented with the provision so long ago made by
the law, but rather the gentlemen who are discontented
with it. Were a number not more than
half a dozen of them, for example, picked out for
this purpose, and picked out with due selection, I
would venture to undertake, Sir, there would not
be a man left who would ever give you my
trouble. I say, with most economy: for though
I confess myself but indifferently qualified for
entering into their conception of the damage, yet
in their instance a douceur to rather less amount
than the supposed £6,000 a year or £100,000
capital, added to the unliquidated principal
money) which would in my instance prove ineffectual,
would, in the other instance, I should flatter
myself, suffice. As to the proportions, an equal
distribution, or if differences be admitted, a gradation
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