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''This | <p>Queen's Square Place Westm<hi rend="superscript">r</hi>. July 2<hi rend="superscript">d</hi></p> | ||
<p>Dear Burton<lb/> Inclosed you have the proposal I mentioned, together<lb/> with a preceding one which it did not occur to me to mention.<lb/> What also did not occur to me, was that M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Dundas<lb/> has been long in possession of a copy of the book you were<lb/> kind enough to mention to him. He took no notice <add>I think, to you</add> of his<lb/> having seen that or the proposal — Of the letter <add>however</add> I think I<lb/> told you of his having bestowed upon it some testimony of general<lb/> approbation, upon M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Rose's making him hear of it.<lb/> This, combined <add>with other instances of apparently studied silence, and</add> with the intelligence given by the energy of a<lb/> connection betwixt him and Duncan Campbell (I know not<lb/> whether upon any grounds) confirms one's apprehension of the<lb/> consequence of the <foreign>video meliora proboque</foreign>. If this be the danger,<lb/> <add>the</add></p> | |||
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Queen's Square Place Westmr. July 2d
Dear Burton
Inclosed you have the proposal I mentioned, together
with a preceding one which it did not occur to me to mention.
What also did not occur to me, was that Mr Dundas
has been long in possession of a copy of the book you were
kind enough to mention to him. He took no notice I think, to you of his
having seen that or the proposal — Of the letter however I think I
told you of his having bestowed upon it some testimony of general
approbation, upon Mr Rose's making him hear of it.
This, combined with other instances of apparently studied silence, and with the intelligence given by the energy of a
connection betwixt him and Duncan Campbell (I know not
whether upon any grounds) confirms one's apprehension of the
consequence of the video meliora proboque. If this be the danger,
the
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Correspondence |
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Jeremy Bentham |
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