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' | <pb/><p>Dear Papa</p><p>Sunday 15<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> Febr<hi rend="superscript">y</hi>. 1761.</p><p>I send you <sic>inclosed</sic> my Translation as I promised you and<lb/>shall continue it every Week and send it you this day as being the<lb/>last of the Week, for I think I need <del><gap/></del> have at least a whole Week to<lb/>do it in, as I am got to a very hard part, and deeply immersed in Philosophy;<lb/>for a proof which You need only read the Original at Your leisure<lb/> before You read my Translation, and if you get to a hard passage,<lb/>you may then look in for information, or to see whether I have rendered<lb/>it right. You see I have wrote the greatest part very small, upon<lb/>consideration that if I was to write as I commonly do, it would be<lb/>so large, that the <sic>Expence</sic> would be much greater, than I have made<lb/>it by this means. tho' I say it is difficult, and all that, do not imagine<lb/>that I desire to have any of it take off, or that I shall be unwilling<lb/>to keep to my contract, for if it was 3 times as much I <del><gap/></del> <add>would</add><lb/>do it, as I promised I would, and you would like it: I <del>think</del> flatter myself<lb/>You will think I have hit off some of the difficult parts<lb/>not unhappily, and be convinced that what I say is not out of mere<lb/>Idleness, and dislike of the Business I am about. I expect to begin<lb/>Logic <sic>to morrow</sic> together with 4 more of us, and <del><gap/></del> with that, together<lb/>with my Translation, I think I shall have employment enough: One<lb/>thing I forgot to desire is, that You would not make any Alterations<lb/>in my Translation except there be any manifest mistakes in the use<lb/>of the particles &c,&c. for there may be various <sic>lections</sic>, and what<lb/>is in my book, (which I should have told you, I found was one of the<lb/>loose volumes of Tully which you sent me) <del>which</del> may be different in<lb/>Yours. I can add no more at present, as I am just going to drink in Company<lb/>with an old Schoolfellow, who is come to see one of my intimate</p><pb/> | ||
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Dear Papa
Sunday 15th Febry. 1761.
I send you inclosed my Translation as I promised you and
shall continue it every Week and send it you this day as being the
last of the Week, for I think I need have at least a whole Week to
do it in, as I am got to a very hard part, and deeply immersed in Philosophy;
for a proof which You need only read the Original at Your leisure
before You read my Translation, and if you get to a hard passage,
you may then look in for information, or to see whether I have rendered
it right. You see I have wrote the greatest part very small, upon
consideration that if I was to write as I commonly do, it would be
so large, that the Expence would be much greater, than I have made
it by this means. tho' I say it is difficult, and all that, do not imagine
that I desire to have any of it take off, or that I shall be unwilling
to keep to my contract, for if it was 3 times as much I would
do it, as I promised I would, and you would like it: I think flatter myself
You will think I have hit off some of the difficult parts
not unhappily, and be convinced that what I say is not out of mere
Idleness, and dislike of the Business I am about. I expect to begin
Logic to morrow together with 4 more of us, and with that, together
with my Translation, I think I shall have employment enough: One
thing I forgot to desire is, that You would not make any Alterations
in my Translation except there be any manifest mistakes in the use
of the particles &c,&c. for there may be various lections, and what
is in my book, (which I should have told you, I found was one of the
loose volumes of Tully which you sent me) which may be different in
Yours. I can add no more at present, as I am just going to drink in Company
with an old Schoolfellow, who is come to see one of my intimate
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Jeremy Bentham |
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