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Alen
This work begun
with very different
views – these views
picked up accidentally
at the
conclusion.
The demand necessity for
such an appointment
presumed
not argued – the
evidence being
.
The specimen
may be something
which shall appear
to come nearer
home to practise.
Experience & reputation
wanting.
Practise will give
the former: Yr Ltrs
the latter.
A certain portion
is annexed would go with
the appointment:
the only business
would be (to support) not to sink
under it.
To a soldier, candidate for what
service military command have
you seen? – what
battles have you
fought? to a candidate
for legislature
what books on the
subject have you
written?
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Gentoo Code preferred
for a
1. because referable
to the design
2. because short
3. because it purports
to be compleat
4. By this means
the Maho Koran
with such comments
on it as are recognized
in Hindustan
might be
reduced to the
same
plan.
5. Comparisons
might be made
with the English
Law by the
This proposal
not superseded
by any plans
of temporary arrangement
that
may have been
formed: since
it would not be
compleated but
in a course of
years.
I need not spend much
time in observing
holding up to view
the lustre which it such
a measure of successful would reflect upon
your Lp's administration &c.
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My enemies if I
were of consequence
enough to have any
could not be better
persuaded than I
am myself that
I am neither
I am altogether destitute
of all those
which
that I have either
the quickness (of
apprehension) fluency
(of utterance)
(of delivery)
nor (audibility
of) voice.
I send this book
as a means of inducing
your Ldp.
to think that there
is a chance of
my being able to
write another to
execute a work
of the same kind
Has your L. ever
thought of such a
place for any person,
or would the
offer of a proper
person who should
appear proper make
you think well of
the establishment of
such a place?
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Objection 1
with answers
1. Inexperience –
Answer. Studies
particularly that
way.
2. High trust.
Answ. No coercive
power
3. Poverty – Answ.
Wealth dispersed
4. Want of Eloquence
rhetorical talents.
Answ. The business
to be done by writing
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Counter Advantage
Arguments pro
1. Impartiality
2. Unobnoxiousness
If it were requisite that
no talents of communication
necessary – no
splendor of personal appearance.
No arts of address,
no dignity of deportment,
no elegance
of address
but they are not
If (as yet) I have
taken no degrees in
legislation (as in arts)
I have not devoted
myself with the less
assiduity to the study
of that cause.
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