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1830 Aug:23 J.B. and George the third
Preface
1. Love of Justice
Telemachus
Philips
History
of the War
between Jeremy Bentham and George the third [and Jeremy Bentham]
by one of the belligerents
I put my own name first. Not that I claim
the par the Monarch: but that it was I that began first.
I begin at the beginning.
I began at the origo belli. No: not at the origo
belli, butbefore it. Some may say, at the :—
when the aera, at which when speaking from the Tribune, a
Orator (it has been said) commences.
Be this as it may, I begin at the year 1756. In that year I being
short of eight years old, my Father had a French Tutor
in the house for me my instruction. For my second French book
Tutor being the first, De la Combe of Avignon heavens bless the memory
was De la Combe his county Avignon he put Telemachus
into my hands. From that sweet source I took my first
love in ardent love justice draught—and a hearty one it was—of the love of justice.
Three years after this first, Ao 1759 years of age about Nine Stray as was the <add>first
the year of our Lord 1759 treated me with a second.
Chance threw into my hand a French autobiography.
Author, in form Paul Whitehead Poet Laureat of that day in: substance and name
the celebrated Courzon— Constante Philips.
It was dated one of the several editions from the hermitage in which I have so long hidden.
(I hope it all when I can you
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love: still stronger was this draught second: taken as it was from the
frontier, such as it were which I found which from the of my . in his
sad history, for a sad one it was a period of gallantry was by marriage.
The husband—a Dutch merchant, man by name,
was beset by meddling relatives and friends. They broke Broken was
the of his sonscience. This was before the Marriage Act
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