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1823 Jan.y 6
J.B. to Bolivar for Miranda

public schools, nothing to be learnt but Latin and Greek.
of which commodities I understand he has laid in, a greater stock, than
can in your country or any other, be applied to any really
useful purpose. Had he fallen in my way a few years earlier,
I should have recommended it to him or to have added,
or substituted, to a considerable the greatest part of it, an acquaintance
with some of the most useful branches of Art and Science.
His age being about two and twenty, this he would have done six
years ago. He would, even if instead of two and twenty his actual age
he had been but sixteen, if from the age of eight to that age
he had passed his time at a school the plan of, Mr Hill's at Hazlewood
near Birmingham, with which I have lately become more
only acquainted, and from thence with a son of the Masters who an able lawyer who
has had a share in
the management of
it, and just now
published an admirable
description of
it, a copy of which
Miranda carries
with him.
In addition to languages, from the most
with more or less of the most useful branches of art and science, he would then have learnt,
not only in theory, but even from in practice, though on such a
miniature scale, the arts of legislation and judicature,
taught, in conjunction with private morality, in the most
delightful as well as efficiently instructive manner imaginable.
Of the sincerity of this eulogium, whatsoever may be
the justice of it, I can give you no better proof than by saying
that upon looking into the a book, in which this joint product
of genius and long experience is brought to view in detail
I gave up with the utmost satisfaction a plan of my own,
which had occupied no small part of my time, and to which
I had determined to sacrifice the greatest part of that garden,
your visit to which will be is matter of record: a plan, for which
I was on the point of putting to hayard some thousands of
my moderate property. When, under your direction, matters
have been should be sufficiently settled, to have raised up furnished a few individuals
at once disposed and able, to allot as far as four
score pounds a year per head, (exclusive of course of expense hither and back) to the giving of their children
the benefit of the education to be had at that school, each
boy (I would stake upon me any little reputation it may
happen to me to have) would, if ordinarily well qualified by

Identifier: | JB/012/088/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12.
Date_1	1823-01-06	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	012	Main Headings
Folio number	088	Info in main headings field	jb to bolivar for miranda
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d3 / e3
Penner	richard doane	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 2940, vol. 11	ID Number	4149
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