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Alen
If so and so it would be neither a discomfort nor a discredit
to your Lship to have favoured countenanced my pretensions,
If so & so I have that my opinion of your Lordship, was to hope inclines
that it would not be a discomfort, & of me to entertain the former hope, my opinion of my countrymen,
the latter.
... those talents whatever they may prove which
God has given me
I should hope that moderate abilities talents and⊞
how moderate that these are which have fallen to my
share are indeed but moderate no may can be more better persuaded of nor
more ready to acknowledge proclaim would so devoted and
so employed might render a man better qualified
for this particular singular peculiar extraordinary and
task than the most splendid abilities exerted
in the ordinary (way in the practise of the
profession) line of professional practise.
– something more and higher in view than the emoluments
great, or little which it might be thought
fit to annex to such an office a mission.
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jeremy bentham |
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alexander mavrokordatos |
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