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<p>Aug. 25th 1781</p> | |||
<p>Saturday morning 9 o'clock</p> | |||
<p>Yesterday when I gave my Lord some directions | |||
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to copy there was one to Jeremiah Bentham | |||
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Esq:<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Bath. "What is that your father M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> B? | |||
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"Is there any attention we could <sic>shew</sic> him? is there | |||
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"any thing we could do for him? would it be <sic>agreable</sic> | |||
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"to him to come over here and see us?" the answer | |||
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was - "Your L<hi rend="superscript">dship</hi> is very good <unclear>-</unclear> but he is full | |||
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"as well where he is." Was not this obliging? | |||
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What a pretty scene would have been exhibited had | |||
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I suffer'd my Lord to send for them? what a | |||
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mixture of hectoring and pressing and self-complacency | |||
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and cringing and self-ostentation and forced | |||
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civility?</p> | |||
<p>Sept. 17<hi rend="superscript">th</hi></p> | |||
<p>Since writing the above, Q.S.P. in one of his letters | |||
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<gap/><unclear>p</unclear>elt for me to get him here - would I come near to him! or | |||
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<gap/>ould he come to me? I went over to him without taking any</p> | |||
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Aug. 25th 1781
Saturday morning 9 o'clock
Yesterday when I gave my Lord some directions
to copy there was one to Jeremiah Bentham
Esq:r Bath. "What is that your father Mr B?
"Is there any attention we could shew him? is there
"any thing we could do for him? would it be agreable
"to him to come over here and see us?" the answer
was - "Your Ldship is very good - but he is full
"as well where he is." Was not this obliging?
What a pretty scene would have been exhibited had
I suffer'd my Lord to send for them? what a
mixture of hectoring and pressing and self-complacency
and cringing and self-ostentation and forced
civility?
Sept. 17th
Since writing the above, Q.S.P. in one of his letters
pelt for me to get him here - would I come near to him! or
ould he come to me? I went over to him without taking any
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Jeremy Bentham |
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