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remedy: but before I will would not take it for granted, without
not doing what depends upon me, which I hereby do asking using <add> this one effort to learn
to be informed towards learning whether that is really the case. If it be, it
will d remain remains for me to beg pardon of Administration and
of myself for having suffered myself this long to harbour entertain
the idea that [the] in hope/the anew that even acknowledged utility of a proposal could might operate as
be deemed to give it be thought/of a proposal would be thought to give a title to acceptance.
No one can be more sensible aware than I am of the demands
that be press upon the time of public men: three months
patient silence have testified my respect for it. But when three
months patience repeated assurances at the end of so long an natural air have been found
insufficient to ensure to me within a fortnight a the half hour which any chumminess
get for asking body close may have immediately there is an end of patience, it
becomes me & no longer to sanction justify/merit indignity by acquiescence
I set out with saying, that circumstanced as I am Circumstanced then as I am, even
the word no, were it pronounced speedily would be a favour
to me. My Brother the Colonel whose assistance would be essential to me
not to say indispensable, and who in spite of admonitions has been
waiting to his great risk, and in no small degree to his prejudice, can
not without making an absolute sacrifice of himself wait many
weeks
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Correspondence |
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Jeremy Bentham |
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