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Charles went for: but I thought it best to let it drop.
What think you! Charles's attending a course
of Chemistry? he mentioned it to me t'other day of his
own head: you may imagine I did not endeavour to
discourage him. His talents and understanding are certainly
exceedingly good: but whether it will be possible
to reclaim him from the views Q.S.Pishness is
much to be doubted. There is no avoiding the giving him
some assistance: and you and I when we go about serving
people, don't like doing things by halves. I must
herein try I believe, whether in behoving myself to him as
if I loved him, I can make him worthy of it. He has seems
already to have got the better of most university prejudices, and
recognizes or pretends to recognize the absurdity and tyranny
of forced subscription and oaths impossible to be
observed. But the grimaces of ceremony, and his in others
artificial
artificial smiles have got such entire possession of him that there
is no knowing as yet whether the sentiments he possesses
are his own. Who do you think he has been travelling
with since he left Geneva? The divine Dr Chelsom, who
has been bear-lading a Mr Wood, son of the Wood
who published the antiquities of Palmyra. He was maintained
all the while by eating Wood's toads at second
hand: just as at Kamschatka, one more gets
drunk by catching the piss of another man who has
been regaling himself with their inebriating mushrooms.
Their establishment in the Temple consist of an old woman
"a very proper person", and a boy taken from a charity-school
to serve as a sort of Mungo, acting as a footboy
at home in the morning, and writing for Far at the
office in the afternoon. He is to be bound apprentice
to both of them conjointly.
Q.S.P. opened all your Hamburgh letters:
but by God's providence there was not a syllable in any of
them but was ostensible. How this happened I have not room
to tell you. But it can not happen again.
In a few days I shall sit down again to Code
and Punishments. In the mean time I have found out
an excellent job for a man to do without eyes.
This is to get a boy who and set him to read Johnson's
Dictat, for me to class the words, by bidding him mark
one with M. for Metaphysics, another E. for Ethics,
another U. for Universal Law. L for local Law &c
P. for Physics &c. I shall also number them M 1, M2,
&c. By this means one may get a compleat vocabulary
for each science. One may also where to begin
in the business of expounding, & how far to go. The
present and particular use I mean to make of this process
is to supply myself with a compleat list of all
the names of a man's good and evil qualities, for
the purpose of title, "Defamation & Verbal Censure"
in the Code: but with a little more trouble, I can
sort all the other words in the language. I have no
room for further particulars.
Davies is not gone in the St Albans. I have
his mare in town, and in consequence of a letter
from Mrs D. have been expecting him from Portsmouth
ever since Saturday.
Don't you make me any fine speeches
on the occasion of my blindness; I have made them
for you. I can not afford you time or room to
write me any thing but facts. I
How I rejoice that you are well in
the grand point — I will make provision for you
as well as I can — but how am I to know
what was the length of the last?
A Mons.r
Monsr Bentham
à
Mictau
en
Courlande
Aux soins de M.
le Baron Klopman
(Chambellan de S.A.G.me)
jusqu'a ce que Monsr B.
se presente.
53
132
67
1779
J.B. Q.S.P. C.A.to S.B.
London Novr 9th to Mictau
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