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<p> High and important as the < | <p> High and important as the <add> various</add> trusts are which you have in <lb/> hand, I can not conceive but that there must be moments<lb/> in which you occupy yourself in matters <del>of</del> which<lb/> have less claim to your attention than <del>the alleviating of<lb/> the distress</del> I do not say the fulfilling of your engagements<lb/> <add>your personal engagements</add> that seems too much now even to ask, but in<lb/> alleviating the distress <add> by a single word</add> of which the breach of them has<lb/> been productive.</p> <p> <note> a <gap/> for<lb/> my favour<lb/> what matter<lb/> my hopes nor<lb/> my prayers <add>receive</add><lb/> go the <gap/><lb/> reach to the<lb/> extent of justice</note></p> <p> Had I ever been fortunate enough to obtain a place<lb/> of real favour in your thoughts, it must long ago have<lb/> been <del><gap/></del> forfeited. The observations <add> representations</add> I have been compelled to<lb/> make as the necessary result of my struggles to save<lb/> myself from sinking must have been offensive in proportion<lb/> to their truth: had I sat quiet, ruin must <add>was</add><lb/> <add>the certain</add> have been the consequence: speaking as I do, the consequence<lb/> can be no worse: nor was it possible <add>easy</add> to me, nor in my <lb/> situation could it be of use to any body to preserve <add> use</add> the language<lb/> of obsequiousness while smarting under the <unclear>muse</unclear><lb/> of injury. I owe to nature and to culture <add>education</add> a disposition<lb/>in which the social affections have a very marked ascendant<lb/> over the angry ones: my gratitude whatever one might <add> little as it <del>might</del> <add> may</add> be<lb/> <add>worth</add> have been made, might in a very lively degree have been <lb/> at your command: but <del>whether</del> I leave you Sir to<lb/> judge whether in a course <add> by upon a review</add> of the business in which I <lb/> have been unfortunately entangled it is possible for any<lb/> such sentiment to be excited in any human breast. <add> bosom</add> </p> | ||
High and important as the various trusts are which you have in
hand, I can not conceive but that there must be moments
in which you occupy yourself in matters of which
have less claim to your attention than the alleviating of
the distress I do not say the fulfilling of your engagements
your personal engagements that seems too much now even to ask, but in
alleviating the distress by a single word of which the breach of them has
been productive.
a for
my favour
what matter
my hopes nor
my prayers receive
go the
reach to the
extent of justice
Had I ever been fortunate enough to obtain a place
of real favour in your thoughts, it must long ago have
been forfeited. The observations representations I have been compelled to
make as the necessary result of my struggles to save
myself from sinking must have been offensive in proportion
to their truth: had I sat quiet, ruin must was
the certain have been the consequence: speaking as I do, the consequence
can be no worse: nor was it possible easy to me, nor in my
situation could it be of use to any body to preserve use the language
of obsequiousness while smarting under the muse
of injury. I owe to nature and to culture education a disposition
in which the social affections have a very marked ascendant
over the angry ones: my gratitude whatever one might little as it might <add> may be
worth have been made, might in a very lively degree have been
at your command: but whether I leave you Sir to
judge whether in a course by upon a review of the business in which I
have been unfortunately entangled it is possible for any
such sentiment to be excited in any human breast. bosom
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Correspondence |
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Jeremy Bentham |
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