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<p><note><!-- note in pencil -->3<lb/> | |||
Panopticon</note> | |||
<del>When</del> To make the thing the easier to <add>talk of, & to</add> enquire<lb/> | |||
after at the Booksellers I <del><unclear>willing</unclear></del> have given<lb/> | |||
it as you will see in the title page a <add>particular</add> <del>nam</del><lb/> | |||
name, <add>in a single word</add> viz: <hi rend="underline">Panopticon</hi> - or the Inspection House<lb/> | |||
Panopticon <del>has</del> is already in use as a name<lb/> | |||
for I forget what <del>in</del> optical instrument or <gap/><lb/> | |||
in or by means of which you may<lb/> | |||
<hi rend="underline">see everything,</hi> as the name imports</p> | |||
<p><note>5</note><lb/> | |||
An engraved plan of a <hi rend="underline">Panopticon</hi> there<lb/> | |||
certainly ought to be to accompany the book.<lb/> | |||
The one that accompanies the Ms you saw is<lb/> | |||
better than none at all: but if a model is<lb/> | |||
made it will be of course much better to<lb/> | |||
give a plan in its improved state, in short<lb/> | |||
a copy of that from whence the model is<lb/> | |||
made. Another reason for getting the<lb/> | |||
plan settled <del><gap/></del> with an Architect as soon<lb/> | |||
as may be.</p> | |||
<p><note>6</note><lb/> | |||
As to the mode of printing, if it be the<lb/> | |||
same to you I should like it were in the same<lb/> | |||
size with the Irish edition of the Defence of Mary,<lb/> | |||
I would beg the favour to have 750 copies sent<lb/> | |||
me here: the <sic>expence</sic> of the paper and the<lb/> | |||
extra-<sic>expence</sic> of working off those 750 would be <add>my</add></p> | |||
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Panopticon
When To make the thing the easier to talk of, & to enquire
after at the Booksellers I willing have given
it as you will see in the title page a particular nam
name, in a single word viz: Panopticon - or the Inspection House
Panopticon has is already in use as a name
for I forget what in optical instrument or
in or by means of which you may
see everything, as the name imports
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An engraved plan of a Panopticon there
certainly ought to be to accompany the book.
The one that accompanies the Ms you saw is
better than none at all: but if a model is
made it will be of course much better to
give a plan in its improved state, in short
a copy of that from whence the model is
made. Another reason for getting the
plan settled with an Architect as soon
as may be.
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As to the mode of printing, if it be the
same to you I should like it were in the same
size with the Irish edition of the Defence of Mary,
I would beg the favour to have 750 copies sent
me here: the expence of the paper and the
extra-expence of working off those 750 would be my
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Identifier: | JB/117/048/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117. |
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correspondence |
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recto |
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]] |
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benjamin constant |
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draft of letter 716, vol. 4 |
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