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<p> <!-- small table of amendments --> P. C.<lb/> 2 | last | for "numbers" read "<foreign>Mainbres</foreign>"<lb/>5 | 3 | for "<del>terrible</del> <add> horrible</add> read "terrible"<lb/> 7 | 14 | for " the Ass" &c to "her heels" read</p> <p> Dear Sam </p> <p> What is above <del> what </del> was not written for <del> your</del> <add> thy </add> <lb/>instruction: but seeing this was the first sheet I happened to <lb/>lay my hands | <p> <!-- small table of amendments --> P. C.<lb/> 2 | last | for "numbers" read "<foreign>Mainbres</foreign>"<lb/>5 | 3 | for "<del>terrible</del> <add> horrible</add> read "terrible"<lb/> 7 | 14 | for " the Ass" &c to "her heels" read</p> | ||
<p> Dear Sam </p> | |||
<p> What is above <del> what </del> was not written for <del> your</del> <add> thy </add> <lb/>instruction: but seeing this was the first sheet I happened to <lb/>lay my hands upon, I though it meet to send it unto <lb/>thee:</p> | |||
<p> Dear Sam<lb/> I thought you had been dead: but seeing thou<lb/> hast now at length written unto me; my conclusion from <lb/>thence is that you art alive: at least <add> (for I would not be too hasty) that thou </add> <del> that you </del> wert so <lb/>at the time thou wrotest the letter which I have received.<lb/>"The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away" and the Lord <lb/>haveth things as he finds them — he hath left thee: <lb/>blessed be the name of the Lord.</p> | |||
<p> Thou seest I have not drawn the same conclusion concerning<lb/> thee which a certain man had once drawn concerning<lb/> him from the like premises: It was the Almanack-maker <lb/> <hi rend="underline">Partridge</hi>. "Verily he is dead" said <lb/>a man of God, whose name was <hi rend="underline">Swift</hi>: "for such stuff<lb/>"as this of his could no man alive have written" O Samuel,<lb/> thou art slow to write: Yet when thou dost write <add> perhaps</add> thou <lb/>deservest not altogether to be blasphemed.</p><p> Thou hast said much unto me: It regardeth much to <lb/>answer thee: I wrote unto thee not in order, but as the<lb/> Lord putteth words into my mouth: or, if it so please<lb/>thee, into my pen.</p> | |||
<p> A black colour still wanting, sayest thou? <unclear>Burket</unclear> knoweth <lb/>the solution of Silver in the water which is called <lb/><foreign>Aqua fortis</foreign>: and asketh he still after a black colour?</p> <p> <note>How far hast thou got in Euclid? give me a few details on that subject in thy next</note></p> | |||
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2 | last | for "numbers" read "Mainbres"
5 | 3 | for "terrible horrible read "terrible"
7 | 14 | for " the Ass" &c to "her heels" read
Dear Sam
What is above what was not written for your thy
instruction: but seeing this was the first sheet I happened to
lay my hands upon, I though it meet to send it unto
thee:
Dear Sam
I thought you had been dead: but seeing thou
hast now at length written unto me; my conclusion from
thence is that you art alive: at least (for I would not be too hasty) that thou that you wert so
at the time thou wrotest the letter which I have received.
"The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away" and the Lord
haveth things as he finds them — he hath left thee:
blessed be the name of the Lord.
Thou seest I have not drawn the same conclusion concerning
thee which a certain man had once drawn concerning
him from the like premises: It was the Almanack-maker
Partridge. "Verily he is dead" said
a man of God, whose name was Swift: "for such stuff
"as this of his could no man alive have written" O Samuel,
thou art slow to write: Yet when thou dost write perhaps thou
deservest not altogether to be blasphemed.
Thou hast said much unto me: It regardeth much to
answer thee: I wrote unto thee not in order, but as the
Lord putteth words into my mouth: or, if it so please
thee, into my pen.
A black colour still wanting, sayest thou? Burket knoweth
the solution of Silver in the water which is called
Aqua fortis: and asketh he still after a black colour?
How far hast thou got in Euclid? give me a few details on that subject in thy next
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Jeremy Bentham |
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