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the original appropriation of six weeks to the business reached fourteen—more than double what the contract called for, had not this correct philanthropist (and father of his people) interpreted it with a bearing wholly different from that which the Board had adopted by the former direction of the Earl of Morton: and this may recal the emphatical manner la which he declared to the representative of John Harrison, that he 'would see him righted.'