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<p> Dear Sir</p> <p> By a letter I received a short time ago from my <lb/> Father, I find you have a charge against me of breach of promise<lb/> for not <del>returning</del> accompanying the return <add> by a fair copy</add> of the manuscript <del>you were</del> <add> the use of</add> <lb/> <del> kind enough to lend me by</del> <add> which my importunities | <p> Dear Sir</p> <p> By a letter I received a short time ago from my <lb/> Father, I find you have a charge against me of breach of promise<lb/> for not <del>returning</del> accompanying the return <add> by a fair copy</add> of the manuscript <del>you were</del> <add> the use of</add> <lb/> <del> kind enough to lend me by</del> <add> which my importunities protected from your kindness</add> If you <gap/> since the return of the original<lb/> you happen to have cast an eye over it, I fear you have <sic>ere</sic> this <lb/> found out a still heavier charge I mean the (omitting to return) disappearance<lb/> of a part of the original itself. Whether what I have to <lb/> allege in exculpation will be deemed a valid one, I cannot <add> must be left to you</add> <lb/> <del> pretend to say </del> <add> yourself</add>, but at any <add>rate</add> it is <add> highly</add> incumbent upon me to confess and <lb/> account for the omission, if I can not justify it .<add> & <del> the <gap/> <gap/> of <sic>decyphering</sic> it, owing to </del></add> <del> The smallness of the </del> <lb/> <del> hand the irregular arrangement of the pages.</del> Several circumstances <lb/> concurred in rendering me unwilling to put it put in the ordinary way<lb/>to an hackney writer, as I might have done <del>to</del> <add> by</add> a paper of less value.<lb/> The difficulty of <sic>decyphering</sic> it, owing to the smallness of the hand and <lb/> the irregular <add> casual</add> arrangement of the pages, and the novelty of many of the <lb/> terms contained <add>in</add> it: the danger of its being lost or injured by carelessness, <lb/> or pirated by <del> knavery or <gap/> </del> <gap/> if consigned to the hands of <lb/> <add> besides that a considerable part of it being in French was an additional <gap/> not to overcome</add> <lb/> an unknown quill-<unclear>drawer</unclear> : These considerations concurring with your kind <lb/> indulgence were the reason of my detaining it from day to day in <lb/> hopes of fresh opportunities of perfecting the copy which had been begun<lb/> and carried on <add> at many opportunities</add> by different hands on whom I could depend, of which <lb/> <add> number</add></p> | ||
Dear Sir
By a letter I received a short time ago from my
Father, I find you have a charge against me of breach of promise
for not returning accompanying the return by a fair copy of the manuscript you were the use of
kind enough to lend me by which my importunities protected from your kindness If you since the return of the original
you happen to have cast an eye over it, I fear you have ere this
found out a still heavier charge I mean the (omitting to return) disappearance
of a part of the original itself. Whether what I have to
allege in exculpation will be deemed a valid one, I cannot must be left to you
pretend to say yourself, but at any rate it is highly incumbent upon me to confess and
account for the omission, if I can not justify it . & the of decyphering it, owing to The smallness of the
hand the irregular arrangement of the pages. Several circumstances
concurred in rendering me unwilling to put it put in the ordinary way
to an hackney writer, as I might have done to by a paper of less value.
The difficulty of decyphering it, owing to the smallness of the hand and
the irregular casual arrangement of the pages, and the novelty of many of the
terms contained in it: the danger of its being lost or injured by carelessness,
or pirated by knavery or if consigned to the hands of
besides that a considerable part of it being in French was an additional not to overcome
an unknown quill-drawer : These considerations concurring with your kind
indulgence were the reason of my detaining it from day to day in
hopes of fresh opportunities of perfecting the copy which had been begun
and carried on at many opportunities by different hands on whom I could depend, of which
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1786-06-28 |
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285 |
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Correspondence |
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Jeremy Bentham |
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