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by a great deal ( it is not necessary to enter<lb/. into for the sake of stating
exactly by how much) make what you
had sufficient to answer your letter of credit.
<p. Under this
Under these circumstances surely it
was your business to have accepted C's offer:<;b/> or at least to have given very strong reasons
for not accepting it. You do not even intimate
that you have left a door open for accepting it
at a future time. One must conclude therefore
that you have not: though I by way of making
the best apology for you I could to Q.S.P. made
as I took for granted that you had. Q.S.P.
has two hypotheses for accounting for their refusal:
one is, that no such offer was made: the other
is that upon its' being made you consider'd with
yourself and found yourself not equal to the duties
of the office: "being fit", (says he) "as he says
"himself, for nothing but to invent". Wilson has
a third, which seems more probable at least than
the first: viz: that some wishes to have you in
the service were thrown out in a general way to
third persons; but no express offer made to yourself,
or express commission given to a third
person to make any such express offer.
Well then, instead of accepting this offer
(supposing it to have been made) you embark
in another project in which you are forced to
appear in opposition to the person who had made
it you. And have you a probable chance of
carrying bringing your project to bear in spite of such
an opposition? Very likely you have I hope
you have, and from the post you have taken
am rather inclined to think you have: certainly
it is not for me with so few data
before me to presume that you have not
But
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1780-08-06 |
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Correspondence |
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Jeremy Bentham |
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