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an individual as myself <del><gap/></del> to pretend (to <add>from</add> any opinion<lb/> | |||
at all) upon <add>to say a syllable on</add> such a subject<lb/> | |||
<del>without being <gap/></del> there <del><gap/></del> <add>seems to be</add> a gap in our public<lb/> | |||
<gap/> which wants such a character as that which<lb/> | |||
<del><gap/></del> <add>is talked of</add> to fill <add>it</add> up. – <del>In point of honesty <add>probity</add> I am</del> <add>As far as concerns the <hi rend="underline">bourgeois</hi> virtue</add><lb/> | |||
of honesty, to which however I give the honours of precedence I<lb/> | |||
am credulous enough to believe we are <add>merely</add> as well off<lb/> | |||
already as we can expect to be: but we want <add>a few such qualities</add> | |||
<p>This <del>much</del> <add><unclear>packet</unclear></add> I have ventured to trouble your Lordship<lb/> | |||
with <del><gap/></del> as the lawyers say (I <unclear>never</unclear> pretend to say we lawyers)<lb/> | |||
<hi rend="underline">de bene esse</hi>: taking the chance of your <del>Lordships</del> having any<hi rend="superscript">⊞</hi> <note><hi rend="superscript">⊞</hi> leisure to listen or <add>look</add> thought upon it. <del>What</del> If this report which has been in circulation for this prevailed <del>with</del> (week or two</note></p> | |||
<p>Within this week or two, <add>in</add> the <add><del>report of the</del></add> newspapers<lb/> | |||
and even if I am not misinformed <del>(the whispers)</del> <add>in</add> if<lb/> | |||
the H. of C. <del>have been reinstating your Lordship</del> <add>be well grounded have any truth in it; the cure <del><gap/></del> of</add><lb/> | |||
<del>in a station that was one <add>was made for you</add> <gap/> to you: but</del> <add>the poor must probably <del>now</del> give way to the more extensive cures</add><lb/> | |||
which embrace the interests of poor and rich together: but<lb/> | |||
we have the <unclear>glaring</unclear> English notion of the incompatibility between <del>what is good &</del> <add>good news & true<hi rend="superscript">⊞</hi> <note><hi rend="superscript">⊞</hi> to prevent our giving that credit to it which <unclear>in</unclear> it (we might otherwise) receive</note></add> what is true <add>desirable to be wished for</add> to<lb/> | |||
render it <add>make it appear</add> improbable. (If <del>it be <gap/> <gap/></del> <add><del><gap/></del> pardonable for</add> so obscure<lb/> | |||
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an individual as myself to pretend (to from any opinion
at all) upon to say a syllable on such a subject
without being there seems to be a gap in our public
which wants such a character as that which
is talked of to fill it up. – In point of honesty probity I am As far as concerns the bourgeois virtue
of honesty, to which however I give the honours of precedence I
am credulous enough to believe we are merely as well off
already as we can expect to be: but we want a few such qualities
This much packet I have ventured to trouble your Lordship
with as the lawyers say (I never pretend to say we lawyers)
de bene esse: taking the chance of your Lordships having any⊞ ⊞ leisure to listen or look thought upon it. What If this report which has been in circulation for this prevailed with (week or two
Within this week or two, in the report of the newspapers
and even if I am not misinformed (the whispers) in if
the H. of C. have been reinstating your Lordship be well grounded have any truth in it; the cure of
in a station that was one was made for you to you: but the poor must probably now give way to the more extensive cures
which embrace the interests of poor and rich together: but
we have the glaring English notion of the incompatibility between what is good & good news & true⊞ ⊞ to prevent our giving that credit to it which in it (we might otherwise) receive what is true desirable to be wished for to
render it make it appear improbable. (If it be pardonable for so obscure
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