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1823. Octr. 21 Consitut. Code. J.B. to Hon. L. Stanhope, Ancona.

correctness, I may see reason to trouble you with
I cannot assign any determinate limits, either at present
or at any future part of the short remainder of my long
life. Alas! poor Spaniards! So mountainous a heap of
imperfections & inconsistencies; of arrangements that ought
not & of arrangements that could not by any possibility, he earned into effect; and in all
this no alteration, till at the end of an indeterminate length
of time, commencing at the end of a period— I think it
was of about 8 years.

But on the part of legislation, the more accomplished
his inaptitude, the more strenuous supposing
his sincere in his persuasion of the consummateness of
his own aptitude absolute & comparative: of his superior
wisdom not only in comparison of all other men, but in
comparison of himself at a more experienced & a mature
period of his exle existence

Since my last I have obtained thro Bowring, thu
& over of some amendments to the style of the copy of
my letter to Jeremy, a copy go which you I hope received
in my last. Time & eyes have been waiting for
the complete perusal of them: but a few examples have
suffer to let me see, that in rendering my words into
correct French, the ideas my would make me
convey, differ very materially from those which I thought
to have conveyed & would have conveyed it I could. The
truth is, the French is of all the leading languages of
Europe the most imperfectly adapted to the desirable
purposes of language.

among

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Date_1	1823-10-21	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	012	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	139	Info in main headings field	constitut. code jb to hon. l. stanhope ancona
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Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	richard doane	Watermarks
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