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14 Jany 1802

If the by from introduction of any of these little hors d'oeuvres
it, it should be though to wear somewhat of the air
and complexion of a novel, it will not be the course for reading, so
long as the novel is seen not the less but the more
evidently to be of the number of those which are
"founded on facts". If love indeed be considered, as
included in the essence the composition of a novel, certainly this
to any pretensions it might otherwise maintain prefer
to the being received into that delectable class such delightful engaging company
must certainly be waived. The I question (I must
confess) whether Your Lordship will find much love
in it many marks of that amicable any such tender affection – certainly
you will not find much cause for it.
Oh my Lord, tink of a man to whom in nature
not altogether without the help of cultivation ill cultivated had imparted the social feelings
in a degree of the most exquisite degree sensibility – and then
think what it must have cost him throughout the
course of eight anxious contentious and heart-rending years
to have been at every turn compelled to put
away from him the sweets of life, and to drink too the
very drop the cup of gall wrath and bitterness!

In a case like this, the more physical or economical
result is that which forms the smallest part
of the real smart waned grievance. Had my little property instead
of being shattered as it is been swallowed up together –
grown again – and been destroyed again so that the
stroke had been quick instrument of destruction had been a fire an earthquake
or any other of the powers of nature, had even loss of liberty or hurt been added I would have endured
it without a groan: but to feel the same for eight
uninterrupted years still grating upon the brow – to
feel

Identifier: | JB/121/281/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 121.
Date_1	1802-01-14	Marginal Summary Numbering	32-33
Box	121	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	281	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.	Page Numbering	E22
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	[[notes_public::Postpone [note in Bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	001
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