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24 Nov 1802
Letter 2d
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at open upon await the result of the communication and the confirmer — But
But if such be the cost and difficulty that press hang upon
this first step, in what further length of time can a
man now in the decline of life be permitted to look for the accomplishment
of the + + so much wider search subsequently announced perambulation to be performed
in that august circle of which the Majestys
Last High Chancellor is the center? In the mean time
— how deep soever may be the offence given by the obnoxious
project — putting aside every such wild and romantic
and exotic and idea as that of obligation — consulting
nothing but the dictates of that mercy — of mercy of which
Your Lordship's breast under his Majesty's is it seems the fountain —
is it not almost time my Lord, that both together —
project and projector — had their coup de grace?
Pardon me more this excursion my Lord into
which this conceit of about obligation — my my noble friends has somehow
or other betrayed me: To him I Upon him I lay the blame for Your
Lordship sees it is the proposition of his not mine none of mine, though I think I am and alike unfortunate in the projectors office confident I have met with something not very different from
it in books — In I say in books: for it is from that
source I must have drawn [my conception] and not from
any thing like experience [I have had of the official world] if any such conceptions have ever been entertained by me as if it
has ever seemed to me [the laws acts of Parliament were not
made to be trod upon, engagements to be broken,] seals of
office were not made to be
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panopticon versus new south wales |
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jeremy bentham |
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