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<p>duration of that correspondence, and you can not,<lb/>I am sure, be at a loss to perceive that for the<lb/>share he bore in it <hi rend="underline">some</hi> recompense at least was<lb/>due. Revolve the circumstances in your mind a<lb/>little more particularly, and you will recollect<lb/>that the business has been of such a nature and<lb/>such a constancy as to take up for a course of<lb/>thirteen months or more a very large proportion<lb/>not to say the greatest part of his time. Serving<lb/>you with diligence fidelity, and above all with<lb/>success, with such a degree of success as no <add>other person</add> <del>man</del><lb/>other agent eve served you with before, I will be bold to say, as<lb/><add>no other agent</add> you could have pitched upon could have served<lb/>you <add>with</add>, I think he may stand excused if he expected<lb/>that such <del>his</del> recompense should have born some proportion<lb/> to the service. To make a just estimate<lb/>of the value of that service may not be quite<lb/>so easy. The mere time consumed, even of a<lb/>man in his line possessed of the ordinary measure<lb/> of intelligence competent to <del>a man</del> that<lb/>line, this consideration I say would of itself<lb/>be far from affording a just measure for the<lb/>recompense. To succeed in such a business required<lb/>such a degree of confidence on <add>the part of</add> the purchaser, such a<lb/>reputation as well for <del>skill</del> intelligence as for probity in the<lb/> agent,</p> | |||
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J.B. for Henderson to Gullet
duration of that correspondence, and you can not,
I am sure, be at a loss to perceive that for the
share he bore in it some recompense at least was
due. Revolve the circumstances in your mind a
little more particularly, and you will recollect
that the business has been of such a nature and
such a constancy as to take up for a course of
thirteen months or more a very large proportion
not to say the greatest part of his time. Serving
you with diligence fidelity, and above all with
success, with such a degree of success as no other person man
other agent eve served you with before, I will be bold to say, as
no other agent you could have pitched upon could have served
you with, I think he may stand excused if he expected
that such his recompense should have born some proportion
to the service. To make a just estimate
of the value of that service may not be quite
so easy. The mere time consumed, even of a
man in his line possessed of the ordinary measure
of intelligence competent to a man that
line, this consideration I say would of itself
be far from affording a just measure for the
recompense. To succeed in such a business required
such a degree of confidence on the part of the purchaser, such a
reputation as well for skill intelligence as for probity in the
agent,
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jeremy bentham |
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[[notes_public::"to be copied close in the manner of a letter upon common writing paper of the size of this" [note in bentham's hand]]] |
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