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a University man & then a Barrister. You have the original
edition of my Parliamentary Reform Catechism. I know not
whether you are acquainted with the vulgate, vulgarly called
Bentham made easy: if you are, it is more than I am, for I
have never yet read a line of it. Such as it is, it was made by
Henry Rosser. The alterations I understand are not inconsiderable,
& from the short accounts I have heard of them, I make no
doubt perfectly judicious, & with reference to the class of persons
in view in no small degree instructive & advantageous: omissions
some, additions likewise to explain allusions by historical
statements: the structure of the sentences rolled out from the
form, of a period in which my old age had involved it, into that
of a principal clause & then a qualifying clause, to that — such
being the form suitable to the powers & the taste of grown
Idlers as well as of Babes & sucklings.

Upon Politics — upon Logic — no speculation of mine so
novel & abstruse that he does not lay hold of them, the instant
a hint is given of them & make application of them as if they
had been his own. Chrestomathia he has more of in his
head than at this time the author has. T'other day from a
few hints I gave him he constructed for me a Tabular
view, which if I may believe him is a complete one of the
whole stock of conjugates (in the Logical sense which is a
great extension of the grammatical one) travelling over & I
believe exhausting the whole field of the English language The
moral part of his character, to judge from all I have ever seen
or heard, is such as makes a perfect match with the Intellectual.
The only department in which I have observed
any deficiency in him is that of the Graces. He stutters & splut

Identifier: | JB/010/258/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 10.
Date_1	1819-10-28	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	010	Main Headings
Folio number	258	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	j whatman 1821
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1821
Notes public	draft of letter 2570, vol. 9	ID Number	3694
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