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<p> (3.)<lb/>much reduced so much so that there is not above an <lb/> hundred pounds remaining upon it. Unless therefore I can <lb/>have some assistance in that very advantageous way which <lb/> I have proposed I shall soon begin to be distressed, the <lb/> consequence of which will be that I shall accept of any thing <lb/> <del> <gap/> </del> I am offered here. I may appear to have pursued<lb/> a very extravagant plan too much so a good deal for my <lb/> circumstances, this however I cannot <sic>acede</sic> to. I have <lb/> <sic>tis</sic> true met with some unlucky circumstances with respect <lb/> to money which have cost me all together something more <lb/> than an hundred ponds. some of them were the effects of <lb/> want of experience and having nobody upon the occasions to <lb/> consult, others were purely the effect of unavoidable chance.<lb/> Yet <del>from</del> <add> to </add> one of these circumstances which alone cost me <lb/> between 50 & 60 £ I attribute the greatest aprt of the advantages<lb/> which I now have, and if it had been the last <lb/> penny I had in the world I should <add> not</add> upon the whole have <lb/> repented it. I am now by means of my friends and <lb/> Pleschijeff in particular in a way of providing myself with <lb/> all things necessary for use & <sic>shew</sic> (or rather I should have <lb/> said <hi rend="underline">shew</hi> & use) <del> will</del> with the greatest <gap/>.</p> <p> I shall frequent the best company or in short <del>what</del> almost<lb/> what company I pelase and have the best means of informing <lb/> myself with respect to everything I wish to attend<lb/> to. <sic>Dont</sic> you plague yourself happen what will <add> possibly pass</add> that I <lb/> shall involve myself in absolute <hi rend="underline">inextricable | |||
</hi> difficulties.<lb/> <add> With respect to money matters</add> my good friend here knows my circumstances and I <lb/> know his and notwithstanding <del>our</del> <add> the </add> shortness of the time <lb/> that we have been acquainted upon his seeing me <add> one day</add> a little <lb/> low spirited from bodily pain suspecting it might be from <lb/> <gap/> <del> <gap/> so </del> money matters he told me I should<lb/> never suffer any inconveniency on that account while he <lb/> had either money or credit. His resource you well know<lb/>I should go to with great reluctance on account of the <lb/> very great obligation and also on account of the necessity <lb/> I should think myself under of repaying with the very <lb/> first money I should have however inconvenient not only <lb/> the sum borrowed but with the exorbitant interest<lb/> which he would have been obliged to pay for it.</p> <p> It is not uncommon for people here who have a sudden <lb/> occasion for money (which often happens from the passion for <lb/> gaming) to give 15 or 20 p<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> C<hi rend="superscript">t</hi> for a great sum only <lb/> for 3 or 4 months and to deposit their jewels for <lb/> security. This passion for gaming makes the strangest <lb/> fluctuation of money among the greatest part of the <lb/> Nobility. To this passion however I am totally unfeeling.<lb/> I have not yet touched a card not any other game <del><gap/> </del> in <lb/> which money is concerned except that I lost a very few half dollars <lb/> at Billiards with the Duke at Mittaw, & that with my <hi rend="underline">eyes</hi> <lb/> <hi rend="underline">open./hi> My illness is very expensive to me but good <lb/> even is come from that. My <hi rend="underline">stomach</hi> hence forward<lb/> I hope will cost me nothing. My difficulty will <lb/> be to avoid invitations not to search for them.</p> <pb/> | |||
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(3.)
much reduced so much so that there is not above an
hundred pounds remaining upon it. Unless therefore I can
have some assistance in that very advantageous way which
I have proposed I shall soon begin to be distressed, the
consequence of which will be that I shall accept of any thing
I am offered here. I may appear to have pursued
a very extravagant plan too much so a good deal for my
circumstances, this however I cannot acede to. I have
tis true met with some unlucky circumstances with respect
to money which have cost me all together something more
than an hundred ponds. some of them were the effects of
want of experience and having nobody upon the occasions to
consult, others were purely the effect of unavoidable chance.
Yet from to one of these circumstances which alone cost me
between 50 & 60 £ I attribute the greatest aprt of the advantages
which I now have, and if it had been the last
penny I had in the world I should not upon the whole have
repented it. I am now by means of my friends and
Pleschijeff in particular in a way of providing myself with
all things necessary for use & shew (or rather I should have
said shew & use) will with the greatest .
I shall frequent the best company or in short what almost
what company I pelase and have the best means of informing
myself with respect to everything I wish to attend
to. Dont you plague yourself happen what will possibly pass that I
shall involve myself in absolute inextricable
difficulties.
With respect to money matters my good friend here knows my circumstances and I
know his and notwithstanding our the shortness of the time
that we have been acquainted upon his seeing me one day a little
low spirited from bodily pain suspecting it might be from
so money matters he told me I should
never suffer any inconveniency on that account while he
had either money or credit. His resource you well know
I should go to with great reluctance on account of the
very great obligation and also on account of the necessity
I should think myself under of repaying with the very
first money I should have however inconvenient not only
the sum borrowed but with the exorbitant interest
which he would have been obliged to pay for it.
It is not uncommon for people here who have a sudden
occasion for money (which often happens from the passion for
gaming) to give 15 or 20 pr Ct for a great sum only
for 3 or 4 months and to deposit their jewels for
security. This passion for gaming makes the strangest
fluctuation of money among the greatest part of the
Nobility. To this passion however I am totally unfeeling.
I have not yet touched a card not any other game in
which money is concerned except that I lost a very few half dollars
at Billiards with the Duke at Mittaw, & that with my eyes
open./hi> My illness is very expensive to me but good
even is come from that. My <hi rend="underline">stomach hence forward
I hope will cost me nothing. My difficulty will
be to avoid invitations not to search for them.
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Correspondence |
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Samuel Bentham |
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