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1828
Real
To what purpose this first ? to inflict annoyance
to d to testify disrespect? to produce meanness? Quite
the contrary. To corroborate your independence. To make known
to those same high functionaries that by silence on your part nothing
would be saved or gained to them: on the contrary that
the additional imputation would cause harm to them, the
imputation of living by their overwearing and irresistible influence
gives birth to such your silence.
Were it only that by this intrepidity of yours you
of you to sufferers, my wish is that before your labour on
it and the counter commonly may in some way or other be rid cleared of this
disastrous and degrading influence.
Worse it can not be afflicted with: if different, the
choice is between the equally bad and less bad.
I own you this further acknowledgement that with no one
of you have I ever had as direct or indirect
void or operating hose few things could be once
by me then your the revenge if such an invitation.
In appearance it is circular. I heard some little time
ago of your having one to other persons in
considerable number more or less considerable. That If late
to me thus it the wonder is not that it should have
been received this late but that it should have been received
at all. Of this lateness more or less of among
yourselves presents itself as a cause altogether natural
and probable: the wonder is not that there should have been
voice but that there should have been so much as
an effectual one.
Identifier: | JB/075/059/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 75.
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