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My dear Sam, I am in no mood for writing: and yet
as thou wilt have it so, and hast so many claims on
me, I will write.

What need of those undervaluing speeches in this Cast? The
reflection upon Lord Chesterfield was just and pertinent: and
tho' the times of it might have been better, they might much
easier have been worse. To me, tho seemingly obvious, it was new: as such
I thank thee for it. At the same time it was a natural subject
of animadversion enough for thee to fall upon, his neglect
of a talent which is more especially thy own. I mean suddenness, or that quality in a man which makes him proof against
delusive impressions. His aim's seemed to have been confined
almost exclusively to insinuation, or that faculty which
fits a man to produce such impassions as may best answer
his purposes, in other people. — delusive or otherwise,
he cared I suppose but little. The firstlatter may be stiled an
active; the latterfirst, a defensive faculty of the mind. The firstlatter
belongs more particularly to the imagination: the latterfirst to the
judgment. "Wit" (which is the exercise of the imagination) "is
"employd says Locke, in slacking out resemblances: Discernment (which is
the exercise of the Judgment) in detecting differences". He
uses the word "wit" in its 'original extensive tho' now less frequent
sense: at present it is confined almost to such resemblances as

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Date_1	1774-12-06	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	537	Main Headings
Folio number	316	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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