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a guinea and a half. The book is not yet above a third
of it printed at Paris. Elmsly has the sheets as they sent
over to him as they are printed off. He told me he would
the next day send me as much as was come over the next day that I
might see how I liked it: but I have not had them yet.
Yesterday he told called to me as I was passing by his shop, and
told me he had been disappointed in not receiving them from
Mr Gibbon (The Historian) to whom he had lent them,
& who had taken them out of town with him.
What should you think of my defending Sr. J. Hawkins
in the Newspapers? I do , not know whether I may n't or
no. They are attacking him most unmercifully in the Newspapers
— He has made himself more enemies than fall to
the lot of most men who are not in very high station.
As I thought him not fairly dealt with, I had some
thoughts out of a piece of Quixotism, to give him something
of a lift. The doctrine of rewarding evil for with good, I have
always looked upon as one of the few good things in a certain
system. I called yesterday at Payne's: amongst
other things, we got talking of Sr John's book. Payne was
full of his conge's and cringes, made me a parcel of fine
speeches, told me that my name was up, and so forth, observed that
I had a pen — and at last out it came that he wanted
me to write an answer to these attacks. Poor Payne
is in for it very deep. He told me it has cost him between
£2, and 3,000. £ I think he must have extraordinary
luck if he sees half of it back again. Charity
apart, it will be no bad policy to make friends of those mammons
of unrighteousness one's booksellers.
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Jeremy Bentham |
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