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§.2. Secret plan for rendering the purchase useless

18 Jany 1802

infelicity superadded all along—that while it was
plainly {plainly} ever so plainly impossible to get advance forward,
to any useful purpose, to , it was
impossible for me to recede or stop, without bearing the
whole blame and dishonour, as well as the whole
loss and ruin, upon my devoted head.

This much is what it seemed necessary, in
this preliminary stage of the narrative to submitt
to your Lordship's notice, but any apparent inconsistency
should be observed between the language employ'd in the at present
in drawing out the thread of the history
in giving the history of the several transactions, and the
language employd by me from time to time,
on the occasion in the course of the transactions themselves.

And here let me be permitted to remark observe before
the period is put to this already too voluminous and
tedious preface, that whatever complication
may be observed remarked in the transactions themselves,
and therefore by necessity by an unenviable consequence in the peculiar
of them, has been has been among the resources
of the authors of my fate. To throw things into
confusion was, in the agony of the conflict produced
by an unprincipled opposition, the momentary sad &
much-regretted apposite resource wish of the only man
of inventive genius whose services the country
was ever permitted to reap the benefit by Mr
Pitt. Such was the—not the plan—but in
a moment of despair the delirious dream—the
momentary unformed embryo conception, of an ardent mind,
driven by a course of torture into despair. In the present
instance, the thickening the plot as much as
possible, one the erecting as dark and wide a
barrier

Identifier: | JB/120/068/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 120.
Date_1	1802-01-18	Marginal Summary Numbering	6
Box	120	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	068	Info in main headings field	secret plan for rendering the purchase useless
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d23
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public	[[notes_public::"postpone" [note in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	39894
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