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<p>would go abroad into the world. I do not say they<lb/> | |||
would in every particular be the true ones: in my own<lb/> | |||
instance I am sure they are not: for no such arrangement, though the £6,000 a year were all clear<lb/> | |||
gain to me, would satisfy me. I do not say they<lb/> | |||
are the true ones: but they have so much the <hi rend="underline">appearance</hi><lb/> | |||
of being true, and the imputation convey'd<lb/> | |||
by them is at least so plausible, that<lb/> | |||
I must confess, I can not stand it. Were my<lb/> | |||
inclination ever so ductile, I could not being myself<lb/> | |||
to take a step so perfectly in the teeth<lb/> | |||
of all my former professions and all my former<lb/> | |||
practice: forgive me, Sir, but I have not nerves for<lb/> | |||
it. In Lord Spencer's conception, I understand,<lb/> | |||
his Lordship's receptacle of possible villas is a<lb/> | |||
sort of Naboth's Vineyard: and myself a sort of<lb/> | |||
would-be David in miniature. According to<lb/> | |||
him, it is the possible Villa that is my great<lb/> | |||
object. Sir, the possible Villa is an object to me, it is true: so was the value of the handkerchief<lb/> | |||
an object to Othello: an object of three and<lb/> | |||
sixpence. Bating a fancy proportioned to an object<lb/> | |||
of some such amount, <add>my humble residence,</add> the little <hi rend="underline">rus</hi> <hi rend="underline">in</hi> <hi rend="underline">urbe</hi> that<lb/> | |||
you saw, satisfies me: if it did not, the supposed <add>£6,000</add></p> | |||
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would go abroad into the world. I do not say they
would in every particular be the true ones: in my own
instance I am sure they are not: for no such arrangement, though the £6,000 a year were all clear
gain to me, would satisfy me. I do not say they
are the true ones: but they have so much the appearance
of being true, and the imputation convey'd
by them is at least so plausible, that
I must confess, I can not stand it. Were my
inclination ever so ductile, I could not being myself
to take a step so perfectly in the teeth
of all my former professions and all my former
practice: forgive me, Sir, but I have not nerves for
it. In Lord Spencer's conception, I understand,
his Lordship's receptacle of possible villas is a
sort of Naboth's Vineyard: and myself a sort of
would-be David in miniature. According to
him, it is the possible Villa that is my great
object. Sir, the possible Villa is an object to me, it is true: so was the value of the handkerchief
an object to Othello: an object of three and
sixpence. Bating a fancy proportioned to an object
of some such amount, my humble residence, the little rus in urbe that
you saw, satisfies me: if it did not, the supposed £6,000
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letter 988, vol. 5 |
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