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() Asel

My Lord

In the last conversation I had with was
honoured with
with your Lordship, (no part of which will
very speedily be forgotten by me): Your Lordship was pleased to put the I well remember one question put to me
by your Lordship was how it happen’d that I had not made the
constitutional branch of the law the first object
of my enquiry. The question is one of those
which convey bestow instruction while as they seem to
demand ask for it: had it been my good fortune
to have been earlier in the way of receiving
such lessons, my book would have been better
(than it is) and sooner written than it has
been: (however) but let that pass – it becomes
me rather to be thankful for to make the most of the advantage
which my good fortune has put thrown into my
hands than to repine at the thoughts
of its not having befallen me any sooner.
But to return to To this question time did not then allow me
so much to attempt giving an answer that could in
any


Identifier: | JB/169/114/001
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Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

169

Main Headings

Folio number

114

Info in main headings field

asel

Image

001

Titles

Category

correspondence

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f1 / f2 / f3 / f4

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::s. lay [britannia with shield emblem]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

alexander mavrokordatos

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

printed as appendix to letter 396, vol. 3, of which it is an early draft

ID Number

56934

Box Contents

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