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pruning and lopping and the branches to be drawn out clear of each other
(I am speaking of the mechanical disposition of the words) But thou shalt
see it when thou comest.
Am I not a good Brother? I sat down instantly upon receipt of thy letter
and have been scribbling incessantly ever since: and that without leaning
upon my elbow as a significant expression once used to me from Pope
by Mr Lind, importing study and puzzlation suggesting an equivalent
idea to, and more delicate than that of scratching heads or biting nails.
And this (who would think it?) tho' I did not rise till half after 10
owing to a particular accident. Yesterday I rose before six. But the Lord
hath been tolerably gracious to me today. And it is wonderful how
the state of my health depends upon that of my mind. I believe, should
the public be tolerably indulgent to me (my ever honoured Lord and
Master, the Public) I should be a new creature.
Franks - thou saidest something to be in one of thy last about getting me
Franks — Good Boy — Do get me a dozen if those canst without troublesome
suit and service. I mean not directed to me: but directed in these
words — "Mrss Lind | Queen Street| Colchester " This tho' a dozen times
over will not take long to write. I am disappointed in that article: a
friend whose quill I intended to set a driving lost his election.
Now must I take down thy letters from behind the Chimney-glass if I would write
more O .......h! the pangs of motion to a lump of indolence! No, it
is not motion qua motion that I am averse to: but change of place with
me is change of ideas: it jumbles them out of train. The length of
this letter thou owest by a whimsical concatenation of things to that same indolence: I rummaged, and rummaged
and could find no paper less than this but what was ruled. So I could not
give you the Curacy (as Lord Chancellor Talbot told a poor Parson
once) but the Living is at your service.
I don't know very well what to say about lodging you. I have got the blanket
the double blanket from the Cot and shiver still. Two only (to lay above me) had I
from my Father.
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Jeremy Bentham |
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