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<p>is removed from the privileged purlieus of Battersea<lb/> Rise: it costs the public no more than<lb/> £6,000 a year to produce all this accommodation<lb/> & thus every body is satisfied.</p> | <p>is removed from the privileged purlieus of Battersea<lb/> Rise: it costs the public no more than<lb/> £6,000 a year to produce all this accommodation<lb/> & thus every body is satisfied.</p> | ||
<p>Such are the colours, in which, according to <lb/> my humble conception, an arrangement of this<lb/> stamp would go abroad into the world. I do not<lb/> say they would in every particular be the true ones: <lb/> in my own instance I am sure they can not: for<lb/> no such arrangement though the £6,000 a year<lb/> were all clear gain to me, would satisfy me. I do<lb/> not say they are the true ones: but they have<lb/> so much the appearance of being true, & the imputation<lb/> convey'd by them is at least so plausible,<lb/> that I must confess I cannot stand it. <lb/> Were my inclination ever so ductile, I could not<lb/> bring myself to take a step so perfectly in the<lb/> teeth of all my former professions & all my former<lb/> practice: forgive me, Sir, but I have not nerves <lb/> for it. I Lord Spencer's conception, I understand, <lb/> his Lordship's receptacle of possible Villas is a sort<lb/> of Naboth's Vineyard: & myself a sort of David<lb/> in miniature. According to him it is the possible<lb/> Villa that is my object. Sir, the possible Villa,<lb/> is an object to me, it is true: so was the value of<lb/> the handkerchief an object to Othello: an object of three<lb/> & sixpence — Bating a fancy proportioned to an <lb/> object of some such amount, my humble residence,</ | <p>Such are the colours, in which, according to <lb/> my humble conception, an arrangement of this<lb/> stamp would go abroad into the world. I do not<lb/> say they would in every particular be the true ones: <lb/> in my own instance I am sure they can not: for<lb/> no such arrangement though the £6,000 a year<lb/> were all clear gain to me, would satisfy me. I do<lb/> not say they are the true ones: but they have<lb/> so much the appearance of being true, & the imputation<lb/> convey'd by them is at least so plausible,<lb/> that I must confess I cannot stand it. <lb/> Were my inclination ever so ductile, I could not<lb/> bring myself to take a step so perfectly in the<lb/> teeth of all my former professions & all my former<lb/> practice: forgive me, Sir, but I have not nerves <lb/> for it. I Lord Spencer's conception, I understand, <lb/> his Lordship's receptacle of possible Villas is a sort<lb/> of Naboth's Vineyard: & myself a sort of David<lb/> in miniature. According to him it is the possible<lb/> Villa that is my object. Sir, the possible Villa,<lb/> is an object to me, it is true: so was the value of<lb/> the handkerchief an object to Othello: an object of three<lb/> & sixpence — Bating a fancy proportioned to an <lb/> object of some such amount, my humble residence,<lb/><add>the</add></p> | ||
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is removed from the privileged purlieus of Battersea
Rise: it costs the public no more than
£6,000 a year to produce all this accommodation
& thus every body is satisfied.
Such are the colours, in which, according to
my humble conception, an arrangement of this
stamp would go abroad into the world. I do not
say they would in every particular be the true ones:
in my own instance I am sure they can not: for
no such arrangement though the £6,000 a year
were all clear gain to me, would satisfy me. I do
not say they are the true ones: but they have
so much the appearance of being true, & the imputation
convey'd by them is at least so plausible,
that I must confess I cannot stand it.
Were my inclination ever so ductile, I could not
bring myself to take a step so perfectly in the
teeth of all my former professions & all my former
practice: forgive me, Sir, but I have not nerves
for it. I Lord Spencer's conception, I understand,
his Lordship's receptacle of possible Villas is a sort
of Naboth's Vineyard: & myself a sort of David
in miniature. According to him it is the possible
Villa that is my object. Sir, the possible Villa,
is an object to me, it is true: so was the value of
the handkerchief an object to Othello: an object of three
& sixpence — Bating a fancy proportioned to an
object of some such amount, my humble residence,
the
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