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In one case I indeed I can conceive a real disadvantage
in as accruing from a bargain of that sort to a person circumstanced
like Mr Elkington. If a quack practising as a secret
of his own what is no secret gets makes a thousand a
year or some such large sum by his practice, it may very
well happen that the being finding himself compelled to
acknowledge that his supposed secret invention is neither a secret nor
his own, may give him the sensation of a hardship, though
accompanied with a douceur to the amount even of a thousand
pounds. I have said declared already that I do not look upon look upon Mr Elkington as a
Mr Elkington as an imposter. man of real merit, and by no means as anything like an imposter or a quack. I take for granted spite of appearances that
when selling Dr Anderson's published invention he believed
it to be unpublished and his own: on this supposition there
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anderson and elkington lett. ii |
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jeremy bentham |
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