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<p>11 (<del>9</del><lb/> | |||
Could you resolve to come and spend six months with me, <del>and</del> you<lb/> | |||
would make a new man of me, you would enable me to turn to<lb/> | |||
account my ideas <add>of improvement</add> which at present lay perfectly useless. You who<lb/> | |||
so well spun out and displayed a few improvements in the details of the<lb/> | |||
practice of constructing <del>of</del> Ships would <del>h</del> now have much richer<lb/> | |||
materials to work on. But how could you, who can scarcely bear<lb/> | |||
the motion of a coach, make such a Voyage by Sea? once landed<lb/> | |||
at Petersburgh I would endeavour to make you comfortable in<lb/> | |||
the journey you would most likely have to make in the country.<lb/> | |||
Whether I shall reside at Cherson, or whether I shall have to shift<lb/> | |||
about wherever there may be anything going forward in Potemkins<lb/> | |||
Governments <add><del>in</del></add> <del>which</del> where he may see or I may see that I can<lb/> | |||
be of use, I cannot tell as yet. he certainly will get me to<lb/> | |||
his estate on the borders of Poland to give <del><gap/></del> directions for<lb/> | |||
the creating <del>some</del> machines <add>there</add>, though he has not <add>yet</add> told me so.<lb/> | |||
But be it when it will, tell me the time you will be at Riga<lb/> | |||
or Petersburg and I will meet you there to conduct you wherever<lb/> | |||
my fate destines me. As soon as you are in the country all<lb/> | |||
<sic>expence</sic> of living & travelling is mine, and I think you wont<lb/> | |||
find it troublesome. I have just this instant learnt that it is<lb/> | |||
probable that I shall have the directing of the building some Corn mills<lb/> | |||
in the Crimea <add>as one of my first commissions</add>, they must some of them at least be worked<lb/> | |||
by wind or possibly by oxen as their <del><unclear>foder</unclear></del> <add>fodder</add> will be very cheap:<lb/> | |||
you <del>must</del> know <add>certainly</add> how fine a country that is: but Cherson itself<lb/> | |||
is unhealthy in the Autumn. The plague was there last year<lb/> | |||
but is now ceased and even when it was there I should not have<lb/> | |||
feared it. It is only among the common people for want</p> | |||
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Could you resolve to come and spend six months with me, and you
would make a new man of me, you would enable me to turn to
account my ideas of improvement which at present lay perfectly useless. You who
so well spun out and displayed a few improvements in the details of the
practice of constructing of Ships would h now have much richer
materials to work on. But how could you, who can scarcely bear
the motion of a coach, make such a Voyage by Sea? once landed
at Petersburgh I would endeavour to make you comfortable in
the journey you would most likely have to make in the country.
Whether I shall reside at Cherson, or whether I shall have to shift
about wherever there may be anything going forward in Potemkins
Governments in which where he may see or I may see that I can
be of use, I cannot tell as yet. he certainly will get me to
his estate on the borders of Poland to give directions for
the creating some machines there, though he has not yet told me so.
But be it when it will, tell me the time you will be at Riga
or Petersburg and I will meet you there to conduct you wherever
my fate destines me. As soon as you are in the country all
expence of living & travelling is mine, and I think you wont
find it troublesome. I have just this instant learnt that it is
probable that I shall have the directing of the building some Corn mills
in the Crimea as one of my first commissions, they must some of them at least be worked
by wind or possibly by oxen as their foder fodder will be very cheap:
you must know certainly how fine a country that is: but Cherson itself
is unhealthy in the Autumn. The plague was there last year
but is now ceased and even when it was there I should not have
feared it. It is only among the common people for want
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Jeremy Bentham |
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