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Sr By the first conveyance that offers itself
you will receive a thick volume volumes which very probably
you will never read. are It is entitled
Principles of legal policy. Theory of Punishment. They are It is part of a work [+]
[+]
to which whom can
if ever it should
be compleated I
hastily intend to give some
such title as
that of Principles
of Legal Policy:
& The object of it the object of which is to trace out
a new model for the Laws: of my own country
you may imagine, in the first place: but keeping
those of other countries all along in view. To
ascertain what the Laws ought to be, in long form
and tenor as well as in matter: and that elsewhere as
well as here.All that I shall say to recommend it to you is
that I have taken counsel of you much oftener than of
our own Ld Coke and Hale and Blackstone.
The repose of Grotius and Puffendorf and
and Burlamaqui I would never wish
to see disturbed. I have built solely on the foundation
of utility, laid as it is by Helvetius. Beccaria
has been lucerna pedibusor if you please manibus meis. Perhaps what
I have done may be found but cobweb-work.
Such as it is however it is spun out of my
own brain. As such I send it you. It is neither borrow'd nor pilfer'd.
I have spent upon it in the whole already about 7 years.
I mean to bestow upon it the rest of my life days, which
at present are somewhat a little more than a third of
your's.

One of the rewards I have been proposing to myself
has been your good opinion. Perhaps I am come
too soon to obtain it: perhaps too late. I have seen
with regret the following billet: [+] said to have been sent
to an intruder perhaps
not more impertinent
than myself. Octoginta duo annis.

Sr By the first conveyance that offers itself
you will receive a thick volume volumes which very probably
you will never read. are It is entitled
Principles of legal policy. Theory of Punishment. They are It is part of a work [+]
[+]
to which whom can
if ever it should
be compleated I
hastily intend to give some
such title as
that of Principles
of Legal Policy:
& The object of it the object of which is to trace out
a new model for the Laws: of my own country
you may imagine, in the first place: but keeping
those of other countries all along in view. To
ascertain what the Laws ought to be, in long form
and tenor as well as in matter: and that elsewhere as
well as here.All that I shall say to recommend it to you is
that I have taken counsel of you much oftener than of
our own Ld Coke and Hale and Blackstone.
The repose of Grotius and Puffendorf and
and Burlamaqui I would never wish
to see disturbed. I have built solely on the foundation
of utility, laid as it is by Helvetius. Beccaria
has been lucerna pedibusor if you please manibus meis. Perhaps what
I have done may be found but cobweb-work.
Such as it is however it is spun out of my
own brain. As such I send it you. It is neither borrow'd nor pilfer'd.
I have spent upon it in the whole already about 7 years.
I mean to bestow upon it the rest of my life days, which
at present are somewhat a little more than a third of
your's.

One of the rewards I have been proposing to myself
has been your good opinion. Perhaps I am come
too soon to obtain it: perhaps too late. I have seen
with regret the following billet: [+] said to have been sent
to an intruder perhaps
not more impertinent
than myself. Octoginta duo annis.

Identifier: | JB/169/013/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 169.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	169	Main Headings
Folio number	013	Info in main headings field	to volt. &c
Image	003	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif]]]
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Notes public	letter 192, vol. 1	ID Number	57075002
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