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I to said in my last (speaking of the Girls) whatsoever thou doest, and
they take patiently, do thou a little more. I should have added, but do it not
remarkably to one more than to another, for the reasons thou hast heard at
Queen's Square Place. All this tho' thou mean nothing by it, and feel nothing
in it, will be putting thee in practise against thou hast occasion. At the
same time be not boisterous and rampant but, soft and pliant, and gentle
and insinuating. if thee and do thyself
which can easily be done ) But if thou perceivest
thyself to feel too much, where it is not convenient, turn aside from
that object, and call off thy thoughts from it, to another: Take no thought beforehand what thou
shall say, not what thou shall do, nor what looks thou shalt put on.
sufficient to the day is the evil thereof. Behold Consider the of the town. how they manage They
not, neither do they study. Yet I say thou in all <add> Art thou not much better than
they ? Others of little faith
thy glory ( though those mightest easily be their ) and not like one of
these. Consider the coxcombs of the Town, how they manage: they toil not, neither
do they study. Verily I say unto thee, a bookworm with all his learning
is not received like one of these. Art not there much better than
they? O thou of little faith!

Thus far I wrote in continuation of my last the same night I wrote
it. I should have said the same night I sealed it up: For there was
nothing in it that required speed, and as the no Postman was at hand
I forbore sending it that night. Thou seest by the scratchings out
I had not my lesson so perfect as I should have had. The more
shame for me thou wilt say.

This morning I received thy answer. The Devil tempted me this
day to shew my father thy four last letters (I don't mean the answer
to my last but those immediately before it: this I say notwithstanding thy
injunctions not to communicate an article in one of them — I mean
that about the accounts. I mention this that thou mayest be prepared
I thought my father seemed to have an hankering now and then to see

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Date_1	1774-12-14	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	537	Main Headings
Folio number	320	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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