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<head>Dear Papa Monday May 25<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> 1761</head> | |||
<p>I have sent you 10 pages of my Translation, and like-<lb/> | |||
-wise have filled up the gap that you complained of in your last;<lb/> | |||
you must know I had asked M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> de Sabis my next door neighbour<lb/> | |||
with whom I am now well acquainted, (who is now a Bachelor and<lb/> | |||
Fellow-Commoner, and has read the Tusculan disputations) to explain me<lb/> | |||
the meaning of that passage, as I had given it over after a great deal<lb/> | |||
of Study myself, but he could not, no more could another Bachelor of Arts<lb/> | |||
of my Acquaintance, and so I went as my last resourse to M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Jefferson,<lb/> | |||
who after pretty much consideration expained it to me to the same ef-<lb/> | |||
-fect as I have put down in the back of my translation. I have inqui-<lb/> | |||
-red about that Epitaph on beau <unclear>Vash</unclear> by D<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> King, but find it is<lb/> | |||
Dear Papa Monday May 25th 1761
I have sent you 10 pages of my Translation, and like-
-wise have filled up the gap that you complained of in your last;
you must know I had asked Mr de Sabis my next door neighbour
with whom I am now well acquainted, (who is now a Bachelor and
Fellow-Commoner, and has read the Tusculan disputations) to explain me
the meaning of that passage, as I had given it over after a great deal
of Study myself, but he could not, no more could another Bachelor of Arts
of my Acquaintance, and so I went as my last resourse to Mr Jefferson,
who after pretty much consideration expained it to me to the same ef-
-fect as I have put down in the back of my translation. I have inqui-
-red about that Epitaph on beau Vash by Dr King, but find it is
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1761-05-25 |
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Correspondence |
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Jeremy Bentham |
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