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Somehow or other shortly after its publicatn. a copy of
this pampht found its way into the little circulating library
belonging to a little coffee-house called Harper's coffee-house
attached as it were to Queen's College Oxford and deriving
from the popularity of that College the whole of its
subsistence. It was a corner-house having one front
towards the High Street, another towards a narrow
lane whh. on that side skirts Qu.'s Coll. and loses itself
in a lane issuing from one of the gates of New Coll.
To this library the subscriptn. was a shillg. a quarter or in
the Univy. phrase a shillg. a term. Of this subscrn.
the produce was composed of two or three newsprs. with
mags. one or two & now & then a newly published
pamphlet : a moderate sized octavo was a rare if
ever exemplifd. spectacle : composed partly of pamphlets,
partly of Mags. half-bound together a few dozen vols.
composed this library whh. formed so curious a contrast
with the Bodln. Libry. & those of Chr. Chh. & All Soul's.

The year 1768 was the latest of the years in whh. Mr. Bentham I
ever made at Oxford a residence of more than a day or two.
The occasion of that visit was the giving his my vote in the qualy.
of Mast. of Arts for the Univ. of Oxfd. on the occasion of a
Parly. electn., and not being at that time arrived at the
age of 21 this deficiency in the article of age might have
given occasion to an electn. contest in the H. of Coms. had
not the majority been put out of doubt by a sufficient
number of votes not exposed to contestatn. This year
1768 was the latest of all the years on which this
pamph. cod. have come into his my hands. Be this as it
may, it was by that pamph. and this phrase in it that
his my principles on the subject of morality public & private
together were determined. It was from that pamph. &
that page of it that he I drew that phrase the words
& import of which have by his writings been so
widely diffused over the civilised world. At the
sight of it he I cried out as it were in an inward
ecstasy like Archimedes on the discovery of the
fundamental principle of Hydrostatics εὕρηκα: little
did he I think of the correction which within these a
few years on a closer scrutiny he I found himself
under the necessity of applying to it." But of this
presently.

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Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	423	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
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