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the event mentioned, it should, on a particular day mentioned be paid off so that
if an invitation given, had, not been complied with <add>acceptedwith
in the instance of any one part of it, remained altogether without compliance of being accepted (an event
which for some time was highly probable +) +Sinclair II, 112. the which
would in that one day have come to be paid off, & and
the money put into the hands of as many as on that
day might happen to apply for it. This <add>But, that such
payment could have taken place, either in respect
of the whole of the mass, or so much as the greater
part of it, and that either in the day fixed, or on
any assignable of times succeeding day, within a
week's or a months, or even a greater, distance
of it, as a result that does not present itself as probable. To
borrow seven and near eight fifty millions in the , —
and at that early period too — eig nine
and twenty millions — presents itself as an
affair and that payable all in one day - presents
itself as an affair of no small difficulty,
even on the ordinary footing of equality , as between
the two contracting parties. How much greater the
difficulty, where if, (as by the supposition against
- (comprised of the eventual lenders) —
was to be Gained, which the Government — the
the eventual borrower, was to remain loose!
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jeremy bentham |
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frances wright |
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