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The word ae- enigmatized (if I may be allowed the expression) le
mot de l'enigme as the french call it, I give you in a
distant place in red Ink, not to forestall you in your conjectures.

{My first is a toy I.} 1st Syllable
{My second is less than a name} 2d Syllable
{My third is nothing} Whole word

This has two properties
in it which have real
merit. The first is it's conciseness. The 2d the connection between in
point of sense between the three staves members of it; together with the
anticlimax which they express. The defect of it is that the
descriptions if such they may be called are so extremely vague
(at least that of the second member is) the analogy between the
type and the thing typified so weak [that you have as to give you] scarce
any ground to build your conjectures on. The second member
one might be an age before one guessed.

{My first is the II. name of an Italian River
{My second is the name of a Dog.
{My third is made to be burnt.

These were the flower of the flock.

Nares you know perhaps is a Poet and has written a play.
At Lord North's Installation I mean as Chancellor of Oxford, or at least some little time before,
he offer'd up in verse a sacrifice of incense to that Lord; which was
received as the King receives petitions, and probably turned
into a burnt-sacrifice. I believe the verses themselves (bating
the foedum crimen servitutis as Tacitus calls it - the
sordid stain of flattery which run through them or
rather composed their essence ( were not bad. However no
notice at all was taken of them: which raised Ld N. several
pegs high in my estimation. Being as I said a Poet professed,
and having nothing but such bawbles to turn his thoughts to, I
expected to have heard of a whole heap from him in verse:
of which there have been for some time past four or five in a day
in the papers, principally in the Morning Post. All this by way

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Date_1	1777-01-13	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	083	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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