JB/538/229/001

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Let it be understood that you neither court
danger (when it can be of no use) nor fear it, when it can be of use.

If there are men enough, there can
be of no use in your taking a job out
of the hands of a man who from strength
or habit will be acknowledged to be is likely to do it better than
yourself.

You have two objects - improvement &
curiosity. The business you have there is either
as a Shipbuilder or as an ordinary
spectator - you have nothing to do there merely
as a sailor

As a Shipbuilder, your business is, I
suppose to keep an eye to the accidents
that may happen during the course of the
cruize and the engagement, with a view
to the considering whether any of them could
be in any degree obviated by a difference
in the construction &c of the vessel.

As a Shipbuilder there may be occasions
for aught I know, in which it might
answer to yourself and to public for
you to expose yourself -

Identifier: | JB/538/229/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 538.
Date_1	1778-08-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	229	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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