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Indeed, Sir, this sense of the value of authority
in such a case is no grimace: and though
the affection, with which you observed me
clinging to the robes of the Judges, drew a smile
from you, as if something of affectation had
been betrayed by it, and though some awkwardness
of expression in a situation rather new to
me, afforded, I make no doubt, but too good
a warrant, for any suspicion, you might have
conceived at the time, you will, I flatter myself,
have been satisfied, by this time at least,
that my reluctance to hazard any choice of
my own, in competition with one that had received
the sanction of such authority, was not
without a practical and intelligible course. That,
if I were obliged to look out for a new spot,
I should prefer leaving absolutely to the
12 Judges, the choice of the spot I was to lay out
my money upon, to the choosing it myself, or
win, that if I were obliged to stand by the choice
of others, those Magistrates would be the persons of
all others whom I should wish to commission
for the purpose, is more, I trust, than I did say,
more assuredly than I could mean to say. But, in the
instance in question, I know what their choice
had been, I know it was a good one, and so good are

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	074	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d17 f13 / d18 f14
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39128
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