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To the gentleman himself it would have seemed,
that in making any such offer he knew what he
was about : — but the "great person" would have known
better things . The more beneficial to the public he
had , in his own view of the matter, made his terms ,
the more appalling the scorn with which he might
have been looked down upon , by the intuitive and
supercalculative wisdom of such high personages : —
after learning from one great person that his terms
were too high , he might learn from another that
they were too low ; or from each of them that they
were too high and tyd too low at the same time: —
and if on any other occasion he had evenr been guilty
of thinking for the public this too might have been
numbered among his "flights". —
What will become of the worthy Magistrate
whose existence , to judge by the terror he seems to
be in of being prosecuted for flattery , seems to depend
upon the breath of the great person's nostrils ?
Identifier: | JB/116/632/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116. |
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116 |
panopticon versus new south wales |
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632 |
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001 |
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copy/fair copy sheet |
2 |
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recto |
d41 / d42 |
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john herbert koe |
1800 |
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1800 |
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letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7 |
38165 |
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