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mine, not only after it has ceased to be his, but almost as soon as
commences so to be. I think there were to have been eight Penitentiary
houses in the whole kingdom. I thus get his success in all the eight
paying for it only in the one, and in that not more than it was necessary
to pay for it.
+
+ But, "Contractors," you
will say, perhaps, at
least if you don't, there others
are enough that will, are
a good for nothing set
of people: and why should
"we be fleeced by them:
"One of them perjured
"himself not long ago, and
"we put him into the
"pillory. they are the same
"sort of gentry that are
"called Farmers General
" in France, and Publicans
"in the Gospel, where they
"are ranked with sinners
"and nobody likes them
"any where." All this to
be sure is very true. But,
if you put one of them into
the pillory, you put
another of them into the Post-
-Office: and if in the
devoted city, five righteous
would have screened the
whole gang from the
perdition called for by the
enormities of ninety five
unrighteous, why should
not the merits of a Palmer
be enough to make up for
the demerits of a whole
tribe of Atkinsons.
Gentlemen in general, as I
have had manifold occasion
to observe, love close
reasoning, and here they
have it. It might be
thought straying from
the point, if I ventured
to ass, that Gentlemen in
the corn trade, or in any
other trade, have not
commonly quite so many
witnesses to their bargains,
as my Contractor would
have to the management
of his house. X
If not dele
at least shod be
in some aspects
altered
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Letter 10th
In my last I troubled you with my sentiments on the
of the first contract, and the great article of publicity in the management,
which was my motive for admitting of a duration so unlimited.
But long before my Contractor and I had come to any settlement
these points, he would have found various questions to propose to me.
thing he would not fail to say to me is — "What trades may put my
"men to when I have got them?" My answer is soon given — Any
whatever that you have a mind to and that you can persuade them
engage in. Now consider turn their hadns to. Now, Sir, let us think for a moment, if you please, what trades
most may be most for his advantage to put them to, and what it is therefore
most likely he should be disposed to put them to.
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