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Hond Sir
I am much obliged to you for your intelligence
in regard to the seeds, & can inform you on my part, that
the Shoes you were so kind as to send me got here very safe,
tho' some little time after you said you would send them.
Dr Bever does not begin to read his lectures 'till the 21st
of next Month, and as they continue above 2 Months, it
will keep me some time longer here, than there would otherwise
have been occasion. Dr Blackstone has deliver'd
a paper about the University, in which after many Comps &
reasons for his taking this step, he ha declares his Resolution
of reading 1 course more only, & that then he will gi
resign his professorship. it is said, (but whether it is contain'd
in this paper, I don't know, as I have not seen it,) that he
will publish soon the 1st part of his lectures (of which there
are 4) in one Vol. the price of which will be a guinea & a
half: thus much is certain that it is almost all printed off:
I mean the 1st part only. — the Provost is gone to Bath to try
what that will do towards the reestablishment of his health:
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Jeremy Bentham |
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