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says he scarce ever looks into a newspaper; nor dares he for fear of ill | |||
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news.</p> | |||
<p>I have just been playing at billiards with Lady S. Miss V. looked | |||
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on, but would not play, saying she never had play'd before. There is an | |||
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event for you: by and by I shall come to telling you every time I | |||
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buckle my shoe. I almost despair of getting them to the harpsichord: | |||
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<del><gap/></del> tomorrow however the house will be clear; and then perhaps | |||
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I may have some chance: the chess and the billiards were her own | |||
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proposal: the harpsichord I must beg and pray for.</p> | |||
<p>The sheet is not filled, and you'll grumble if I leave any of | |||
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it blank. There seems no want of money here: grounds laying out and | |||
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plantations making <del>at</del> <add>upon</add> a large scale. A gate going to be made with a | |||
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pyramid <sic>of</sic> each side of it for an approach to the house at six miles | |||
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distance - the pyramids to be at least a hundred foot high. At this | |||
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place a road which is to be made from the house is to join the <add>road from</add> London | |||
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to the Devizes: this new road will leave Calne <add>(through which the present road runs)</add> on the right hand and | |||
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save a mile or two. I call it Egypt: in the way you have deep vallies | |||
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with meadows and a watermill at the bottom of them; and on the sides | |||
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craggy rocks with water gushing out of them, just for all the world as if | |||
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<unclear>Moses</unclear> had been there. L<hi rend="superscript">d</hi> S. in a <foreign>téte a téte</foreign> we had t'other day talked <add>to</add></p> | |||
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He is moderate enough in his conversation about politics, but desponding: he
says he scarce ever looks into a newspaper; nor dares he for fear of ill
news.
I have just been playing at billiards with Lady S. Miss V. looked
on, but would not play, saying she never had play'd before. There is an
event for you: by and by I shall come to telling you every time I
buckle my shoe. I almost despair of getting them to the harpsichord:
tomorrow however the house will be clear; and then perhaps
I may have some chance: the chess and the billiards were her own
proposal: the harpsichord I must beg and pray for.
The sheet is not filled, and you'll grumble if I leave any of
it blank. There seems no want of money here: grounds laying out and
plantations making at upon a large scale. A gate going to be made with a
pyramid of each side of it for an approach to the house at six miles
distance - the pyramids to be at least a hundred foot high. At this
place a road which is to be made from the house is to join the road from London
to the Devizes: this new road will leave Calne (through which the present road runs) on the right hand and
save a mile or two. I call it Egypt: in the way you have deep vallies
with meadows and a watermill at the bottom of them; and on the sides
craggy rocks with water gushing out of them, just for all the world as if
Moses had been there. Ld S. in a téte a téte we had t'other day talked to
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Jeremy Bentham |
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