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<p><head><del>(<gap/>)</del> Asel</head></p> | |||
<p>My Lord</p> | |||
<p>In the last conversation I had with <add>was<lb/> | |||
honoured with</add> with your Lordship, (no part of which will<lb/> | |||
very speedily be forgotten by me): <del>Your Lordship was pleased to put the</del> <add>I well remember one</add> question <add>put</add> to me<lb/> | |||
<add>by your Lordship was</add> how it happen’d that I had not made the<lb/> | |||
constitutional branch of the law the first object<lb/> | |||
of my enquiry. The question is one of those<lb/> | |||
which convey <add>bestow</add> instruction while <add>as</add> they seem to<lb/> | |||
demand <add>ask for</add> it: had it been my good fortune<lb/> | |||
to have been earlier in the way of receiving<lb/> | |||
such lessons, my book would have been better<lb/> | |||
(than it is) and sooner written than it has<lb/> | |||
been: (however) but let that pass – it becomes<lb/> | |||
me rather to be thankful for <add>to make the most of</add> the advantage<lb/> | |||
which my good fortune has put <add>thrown</add> into my<lb/> | |||
hands than to repine at the thoughts<lb/> | |||
of its not having befallen me any sooner.<lb/> | |||
<add>But to return to</add> To this question time did not then allow me<lb/> | |||
<add>so much</add> to attempt giving an answer that could in<lb/> | |||
<add>any</add></p> | |||
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1
() Asel
My Lord
In the last conversation I had with was
honoured with with your Lordship, (no part of which will
very speedily be forgotten by me): Your Lordship was pleased to put the I well remember one question put to me
by your Lordship was how it happen’d that I had not made the
constitutional branch of the law the first object
of my enquiry. The question is one of those
which convey bestow instruction while as they seem to
demand ask for it: had it been my good fortune
to have been earlier in the way of receiving
such lessons, my book would have been better
(than it is) and sooner written than it has
been: (however) but let that pass – it becomes
me rather to be thankful for to make the most of the advantage
which my good fortune has put thrown into my
hands than to repine at the thoughts
of its not having befallen me any sooner.
But to return to To this question time did not then allow me
so much to attempt giving an answer that could in
any
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jeremy bentham |
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alexander mavrokordatos |
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printed as appendix to letter 396, vol. 3, of which it is an early draft |
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