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1822 Jany 30
Jeremy Bentham to J. B. Felgueiras Secry to Portuguese Cortes
Letter 1 (3?)
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London 30 Jany 1822
Jeremy Bentham to Joao Baptista Felgueiras
Deputy and Secretary to the Portuguese Cortes.
In answer to his of the 22d Decr Received 25 Jany 1822

Sir,
Your Letter of the 22 Decr 1822 reached me
on friday last. A continued series of the Journals of your
August Assembly has long been among the prime objects
of my wishes: wishes which I have made various &
fruitless endeavours to realize. The manner in which
these wishes will at length find their accomplishment is
such as my imagination had scarce been bold enough to
paint to me. But after such a present from such a
quarter, whatsoever judgement I may ever after have occasion
to express in relation to the proceedings of that assembly will
have need of all the philosophy I can muster — to preserve it
from the sinister influence of the affections, the existence
of which is by the nature of the human mind rendered
absolutely inevitable.

This present for the actual receipt of which I have
still to look with longing eyes is of the member of those rewards
which the really deputed Representatives of a free people
need not blush to give, nor a man whose honest wants
are already provided for, to receive: a reward by the extraction
of which no distress is made more pungent, no just resentment
kindled. To a Grecian Victor, a sprig of parsley
was a reward which found thousands to contend for
it. The parsley leaves could do no more than form a momentary
decoration for a covering to the head: the leaves you send
me will have a nobler use. Would that the difficulties were

Identifier: | JB/013/281/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 13.
Date_1	1822-01-20	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings
Folio number	281	Info in main headings field	jeremy bentham to j. b. felgueiras secy to portuguese cortes
Image	001	Titles	jeremy bentham to joao baptista felgueiras deputy and secretary to the portuguese cortes / in answer to his of 22d decr received 25 january 1822
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	richard doane	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 2846, vol. 11	ID Number	4730
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