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'' | <p>have been doing Austin's, an exercise for one's Master's<lb/> | ||
degree, that one is obliged to do, on a summons from the<lb/> | |||
Proctor, at a proper standing. it consists in disputing for<lb/> | |||
2 Hours in the Schools in the presence of the Proctor the<lb/> | |||
whole time, & is therefore the least of a farce of any of the<lb/> | |||
disputations in the Schools, at the rest of which the Proctors<lb/> | |||
are only present occasionally, & sometimes not at all,<lb/> | |||
as it may happen. — while your Garden is running to ruin,<lb/> | |||
I <add>am</add> entertaining myself in the Physick Garden, to which for<lb/> | |||
a shilling now and then, I have free ingress & egress. I cannot<lb/> | |||
however be totally insensible of your calamities, in which indeed<lb/> | |||
I myself have no small concern. — if you can excuse<lb/> | |||
the trouble I give you, I should be glad to know exactly<lb/> | |||
or at least as near as you can tell, how much the parcel<lb/> | |||
of Seeds from Gordon's came to; & that within this fortnight,<lb/> | |||
for reasons that shall hereafter be explained<lb/> | |||
by Your dutiful & affectionate Son<lb/> | |||
J. Bentham.<lb/> | |||
Queen's Coll. Oxon. April 30<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> 1765.</p> | |||
have been doing Austin's, an exercise for one's Master's
degree, that one is obliged to do, on a summons from the
Proctor, at a proper standing. it consists in disputing for
2 Hours in the Schools in the presence of the Proctor the
whole time, & is therefore the least of a farce of any of the
disputations in the Schools, at the rest of which the Proctors
are only present occasionally, & sometimes not at all,
as it may happen. — while your Garden is running to ruin,
I am entertaining myself in the Physick Garden, to which for
a shilling now and then, I have free ingress & egress. I cannot
however be totally insensible of your calamities, in which indeed
I myself have no small concern. — if you can excuse
the trouble I give you, I should be glad to know exactly
or at least as near as you can tell, how much the parcel
of Seeds from Gordon's came to; & that within this fortnight,
for reasons that shall hereafter be explained
by Your dutiful & affectionate Son
J. Bentham.
Queen's Coll. Oxon. April 30th 1765.
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