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1821 Sept. 11
To Toreno
Letter 2 or 6?
(1) or (2)
Omitted.
46** or 37**
Independently of
special influence
natural which if taken
employed in such
reint presentive
authors to observation
of good-gift-givers. But
Committees
1. On the pleasure would
suits presentation depend;
2. ultimately on the
pleasure of good gifts
givers would the receipt
by do immediately depend,
thence upon the
personableness of the
member to their interest
and for professions.
Even independently of any special influence employed
on the occasion in question by the functionaries
in question, the talent as displayed in the times of any
such remarks could not but have the effect presenting of recommending
presenting the author of them to the observation notice at least of the
abovementioned givers of good gifts. On the other hand But in the first place
in the instance of each annitator
in each mans instance whether his composition should be permitted to present to make
itself to any eye but their own, this would
its appearance this would be in the nature of the case
be absolutely naturally be dependent upon their absolute pleasure in the next place
without such setting aside such special interference and
influence, it would depend upon the pleasure of the
abovementioned givers of good gifts, which again would
of course depend upon the uniformly favourable of his remarks
to the their prepossessions and the views taken by them
of their own personal individual and aggregate private interest particular and
thence sinister interests. Obsequiousness therefore can still
m as towards thethe will declared or presumed, of the several luminaries comprehended
in this constellation of patrons obsequiousness their
as towards individuals, is the
virtue property endowment which in the in the scale of winning merit embest thus set in footopened for patronage
would naturally weigh much more than any
of those talents in the solidity and splendour of which
the merit of the work in respect of its influence on
the greatest happiness of the greatest number
On obsequiousness
therefore towards both more than
on tabty would depend
annuities chance
of reward more than
upon the usefulness
of the direction given
to his talents with
reference to greatest
happiness &c.
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