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upon as the most severe ones. I have endeavoured to
reconcile myself to that event, by the consideration, that,
when we leave nothing at all behind us to regret, we are
prepared to meet Death with fortitude and indifference.

But I beg your pardon Dear Sir, for
wandering so far out of the way, and making these
moral reflections, which, I own, are quite foreign to
the subject of your letter, and must be indifferent to you.
I have been naturally enough, tho' unawares, led into them.

I do not find that besides the history of
Opticks by Dr Priestley in a large 2to I have any other
book of yours, excepting his answer to Beattie, Oswald
and Reid. As to Hasselquist's voyage, I do not remember
to have ever borrowed it of you; on the contrary, I am pretty certain
I have not, because it was lent to me, soon after its
publication, by my friend Mr Hinde of Hampstead.

I see by a memorandum of mine, that you
have along with the 3 Vol.es of Livy, Sheridan upon
elocution in 2to covered with blue paper. I shall be obliged

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Date_1	1784-04-13	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	009	Main Headings
Folio number	001	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	francis villion	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown and motif] [britannia emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 494, vol. 3	ID Number	3302
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