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Queens coll. March 8th 1761

Dear Papa

I am forced to send you this time as an excuse
for not sending you my translation instead of the thing
itself; but as I shall make it up the succeeding weeks, and can give
you the reason for my not having had time to do it, I hope you
will excuse me this time. Mr Jefferson had set Mr
Cooper and I a great deal of Caesar's Commentaries to
translate into Greek Prose, which is more difficult to
me in proportion than Verse; which I told Mr Jefferson:
but as tho' I was sure it was so, yet I could
not then account for it to Mr Jefferson, who thoug(ht
it very strange that it should be so; but I have since
thought of a reason, which is this: I having read chiefly
authors in Greek, could form my manner
of Versifying and collect my words out of Homer &c
besides Verses give one a greater licence of expression,
and if one cannot express one's Thoughts (or the

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Date_1	1761-03-08	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	537	Main Headings
Folio number	076	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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