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<!-- written upside down at the top of the page --><p> Alas! poor Clark!</p> <p> Bowood Sept. 30th 1781 1/2 after 10 at <lb/> night<lb/> Sunday.</p><p>Hon:<hi rend="superscript">d</hi> Sir</p> <p>Today at dinner I had the favour of yours<lb/> of the 29<hi rend="superscript">th</hi>, which according to my calculation was yesterday.<lb/> As to my not seconding my last letter sooner, my own reproaches<lb/> anticipated yours: but the fact is, it is with the <lb/> utmost difficulty I have been able to find time for even <lb/> this short tribute of duty whatever it may prove. All the <lb/> time I can get in the morning before breakfast I find it <lb/> absolutely necessary for my health to devote to exercise: nor is <lb/> even that always enough: for between breakfast & dinner, even <lb/> although there should be no party made for anything, I sometimes <lb/> find it necessary to get on horseback and shake myself.<lb/> It is but now and then that I have been able to get a morning <lb/> <del><gap/> </del> to bestow upon my book or on a few letters which <lb/> for one purpose or other I have had occasion to write. After <lb/> dinner, while the gentlemen are still at their bottle, I steal away <lb/> to the library where I meet Lady Shelburne and wait<lb/> on her to her dressing room: there we have music of some kind or <lb/> other, unless there happen to be ladies in the house who are not musically</p> | |||
Alas! poor Clark!
Bowood Sept. 30th 1781 1/2 after 10 at
night
Sunday.
Hon:d Sir
Today at dinner I had the favour of yours
of the 29th, which according to my calculation was yesterday.
As to my not seconding my last letter sooner, my own reproaches
anticipated yours: but the fact is, it is with the
utmost difficulty I have been able to find time for even
this short tribute of duty whatever it may prove. All the
time I can get in the morning before breakfast I find it
absolutely necessary for my health to devote to exercise: nor is
even that always enough: for between breakfast & dinner, even
although there should be no party made for anything, I sometimes
find it necessary to get on horseback and shake myself.
It is but now and then that I have been able to get a morning
to bestow upon my book or on a few letters which
for one purpose or other I have had occasion to write. After
dinner, while the gentlemen are still at their bottle, I steal away
to the library where I meet Lady Shelburne and wait
on her to her dressing room: there we have music of some kind or
other, unless there happen to be ladies in the house who are not musically
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Correspondence |
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Jeremy Bentham |
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