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<head>Annuity Notes</head><!-- in pencil. Unsure whether this is to be treated as a heading or to be used as a marginal note only. Please amend as necessary. --> | <head>Annuity Notes</head><!-- in pencil. Unsure whether this is to be treated as a heading or to be used as a marginal note only. Please amend as necessary. --> | ||
<head>To Pitt</head><!-- in pencil. Unsure whether this is to be treated as a heading or to be used as a marginal note only. Please amend as necessary. --> | <head>To Pitt</head><!-- in pencil. Unsure whether this is to be treated as a heading or to be used as a marginal note only. Please amend as necessary. --> | ||
<p>Sir | <p>Sir<!-- Unsure whether the dot afterwards is a comma, full stop or an age mark on the paper. Amend as necessary. --> | ||
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<!-- indented --> | <!-- indented -->Enclosed I take the liberty of submitting to you | ||
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the skeleton of a proposed measure, [<!-- open bracket and deletion in pencil --><del>the objects</del> <add>title <add><unclear>entitled</unclear></add></add> <del>as well as | the skeleton of a proposed measure, [<!-- open bracket and deletion in pencil --><del>the objects</del> <add>title <add><unclear>entitled</unclear></add></add> <del>as well as | ||
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subject matter of which are</del> <add><del>used not here be <unclear>reported,</unclear></del></add> <del>sufficiently apparent</del> | subject matter of which are</del> <add><del>used not here be <unclear>reported,</unclear><!-- or, reprised ? --></del></add> <del>sufficiently apparent</del> | ||
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<p><!-- indented -->I <sic>submitt</sic> <sic>its</sic> in this its <unclear><sic>realisd</sic></unclear> state , <del>unsupported</del> <add>without <del>any</del></add> | <p><!-- indented -->I <sic>submitt</sic> <sic>its</sic> in this its <unclear><sic>realisd</sic></unclear> state , <del>unsupported</del> <add>without <del>any</del></add> | ||
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support <add><del><unclear>by reasons</unclear> | support <add><del><unclear>by reasons</unclear>,</del></add> from argument : because <del>to you</del> , for <unclear>one</unclear> <!-- or 'our'? --><unclear>done</unclear> | ||
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of | of th<del>e</del><!-- looks as though something was deleted or amended, most likely a partial letter or two was changed, though the last letter or two is indistinguisable to me. Could this word that been 'these' ? --> sort that might be <del><unclear>useful</unclear></del> <add><del><unclear><gap/></unclear><del><!-- 'necessary' ? --> <add>of use</add></add> <unclear>this</unclear><!-- or, 'there' --> might be twenty | ||
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<unclear>thus</unclear><!-- or, third ? -->, <add>to you</add> | <unclear>thus</unclear><!-- or, third ? -->, would <add>to you</add> be superfluous , and repulsive . [+] <note><add>[+]</add> You will scarce but upon a <unclear>jurist</unclear><!-- or, purist --> I believe , that has not received some consideration : whatsoever <del><unclear>use</unclear> might be</del> <add><del>degree of</del></add> <del>the</del> <add>sort of</add> judgement <del>that has</del> <add><del>grounded</del> been <del>on it</del> may have</add> the result of it .</note> | ||
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<p>On the <unclear>term</unclear> of utility <add>useful efficacy</add> or practicability, if I | <p>On the <unclear>term</unclear> of utility <add>useful efficacy</add> or practicability, if I | ||
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4. July 1800
Annuity Notes
To Pitt
Sir
Enclosed I take the liberty of submitting to you
the skeleton of a proposed measure, [the objects title <add>entitled</add> as well as
subject matter of which are used not here be reported, sufficiently apparent
I submitt its in this its realisd state , unsupported without any
support by reasons, from argument : because to you , for one done
of the sort that might be useful <add>of use
thus, would to you be superfluous , and repulsive . [+] [+] You will scarce but upon a jurist I believe , that has not received some consideration : whatsoever use might be degree of the sort of judgement that has grounded been on it may have the result of it .
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On the term of utility useful efficacy or practicability, if I
were fortunately enough to learn , in relation to what points
it appeared upon a first glance objectionable to you , I would in any subsequent futur
communication on the subject confine myself to these
points . [Under both these heads after an one partly close
accumulation of about 1 1/2 year , I must confess myself
not to want for firstly will afford confidence.]
Any point much more strongly to our measures look much more to
the kind of : regarding the measures that
under your Administration have been taken with regard
to the principal point, the reduction of the National Debt,
as professed of a by far — much more rapid degree of efficacy, than
I have seen any where ascribed attributed to them: Possibly, I will venture to say,, + possibly these even you yourself may have yet some reason to ascribe refuse from it the to it: In this point of view there might possibly also be some use in your Customary a testing a view of this upon the prospect before it met the public eye. But this,
I spent days though however the principal object: if the proposed plan but this principal one, is by
no means the only one.
To look deep fear and wider and steadily into requires more leisure time,
than, a man the on whose attention <add>directions attention the present depends terms rests
can will easily . To me mean <add>me</add>, at last has not been
wanting, however it be with other requisites.
A Map of even though drawn by an masterful
hand, may not be without its use, even to a the most skillful
eye: because for in a truth so wen the first attempt
conquers maps conquer efforts conquer the greatest difficulty: and correct views are
then suggested by erronous ones. to a correct view
