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5) of the Introduction: that makes in all 208 pages.
I would not promise that there will not
be 300. See p.6 of this But suppose two months work
more: that will make it the 10th of June
before it is finished; although allowing a week
for binding, that will make it the 17th.
It may then get to you about the beginning
of July. You shall have
as much as happens to be done for your own reading with
the first parcel I send out. The 1r Chap
(on the principle of utility) ends at p.6
the 2d sheet goes pretty near to finish
Ch. 2. (Principles adverse to that of utility.)
Wilson expressed more satisfaction
at the 2d sheet than I ever knew
him to express in my life. The translation
from Raspe: he is in jail for
about 70 or 80 £. where I suppose he
will lie. To tell you the truth I had pretty
well ceased to wish it: for I found him
very confused upon the subject, nor
could I beat into his head for example the difference
between "what we shall do,
& what we ought to do. In
there is another offer. There is a German
in town whom I have seen
& who speaks English perfectly, & whom
Schwediauer puffs off mightily. Schw.
says this man will undertake it, & will
translate it as it comes out, sheet
by sheet. Schwede says he is a man
of learning, possesses the German perfectly
and has already translated things into
it from the English: that he understands
the niceties of Grammar, for he has
taught
it here to some particular persons. I have not
learnt his name yet. Schw says he is
moreover a man of honour. for whom
he could be responsible. I must tell
him of the uncertainty there is whether
any more of it will be published
than the introduction. I have got
pas nearly sufficient for letters to the
Dk of P. & the K. of Sw. to whom the
German shall go, please the Lord
above. Now Mr Sir, is not here
news for you?
Colonel St Paul called on Wilson
yest t'other day; and told him, he had a
great favour to beg of him. It was that
Wilson would get him an early sight
of my work, before it was published
and if possible before it was all printed.
He says he will make use of it to give
him consequence with Ld North &c, I
will therefore go puffing of it about.
W. however say he won't understand
a word of it. St Paul has a house
at Chertsey, where Wilson (when we
are at Thorpe) got acquainted with
him by means of Douglas & visited
him. I was never of the party being either
blind or absent. of C . m of Sci.
To judge by the size of the Ms
papers, the first part alone of the body
viz: the substantive part (meaning all which
does not relate to Procedure) will contain
at least twice as much as the Introduction
so that we may set it down at least I think at about
600 pages.
Perhaps you make may have written
to the D. before this reaches you. Quant
aux inventions nouvelles ma de peut-etre qu'il ne serait pas acri a
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