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<p>This you will say belongs more to your head if the <gap/><lb/> | |||
than the <gap/>. Another that I hope will come under<lb/> | |||
both heads as well as under that of the <gap/> , is<lb/> | |||
a new and very strange idea in shipbuilding, which<lb/> | |||
having obtained full powers he <del><gap/></del> is carrying into<lb/> | |||
<del>practice</del> <add>execution</add> with all his might. If it succeeds to the<lb/> | |||
degree in which according to received <unclear>theories</unclear> and experiments<lb/> | |||
which have already been made if it though<lb/> | |||
in <del>it might <gap/></del> <add>a much</add> less perfect state than that to which<lb/> | |||
it has been brought to now, it ought, it will <del><gap/></del><lb/> | |||
a great revolution in inland, <del>and</del> may we<lb/> | |||
hope ever in maritime navigation. It is <del><gap/></del><lb/> | |||
simple in its conception as the other architectural<lb/> | |||
one, though in its application it requires a combination<lb/> | |||
of contrivances.<lb/></p> | |||
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The architectural idea <del>consists in nothing but</del> in the place of what we<lb/> | |||
<del><gap/></del> call an Inspection-house is that of a <unclear>circular</unclear><lb/> | |||
building so contrived that any number of persons may<lb/> | |||
therein be kept in such a <gap/> as either to be, or<lb/> | |||
what comes nearly to the same thing to <unclear>serve</unclear> themselves,<lb/> | |||
to be, constantly under the eye of a person or<lb/> | |||
persons occupying a <gap/> in the center which<lb/> | |||
we call the Inspector's Lodge. You will be surprised<lb/> | |||
when you come to see the efficacy <del>that</del> which this simple<lb/> | |||
and seemingly obvious contrivance promises to the | |||
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This you will say belongs more to your head if the
than the . Another that I hope will come under
both heads as well as under that of the , is
a new and very strange idea in shipbuilding, which
having obtained full powers he is carrying into
practice execution with all his might. If it succeeds to the
degree in which according to received theories and experiments
which have already been made if it though
in it might a much less perfect state than that to which
it has been brought to now, it ought, it will
a great revolution in inland, and may we
hope ever in maritime navigation. It is
simple in its conception as the other architectural
one, though in its application it requires a combination
of contrivances.
The architectural idea consists in nothing but in the place of what we
call an Inspection-house is that of a circular
building so contrived that any number of persons may
therein be kept in such a as either to be, or
what comes nearly to the same thing to serve themselves,
to be, constantly under the eye of a person or
persons occupying a in the center which
we call the Inspector's Lodge. You will be surprised
when you come to see the efficacy that which this simple
and seemingly obvious contrivance promises to the
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Identifier: | JB/539/471/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539. |
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Correspondence |
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Jeremy Bentham |
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