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<head>S.B. to I.B. Linc.Inn Jan.5.1779</head> | <head>S.B. to I.B. Linc.Inn Jan.5.1779</head> | ||
"I need not tell you what pleasure it gave me to find | <p>"I need not tell you what pleasure it gave me to find | ||
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"M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Sambouski expressing such sentiments with regard to the | "M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Sambouski expressing such sentiments with regard to the | ||
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"such <del>laudable intentions.</del> <add>commendable <del>wishes</del> views.</add> I need not <sic>recal</sic> to you the feasts we | "such <del>laudable intentions.</del> <add>commendable <del>wishes</del> views.</add> I need not <sic>recal</sic> to you the feasts we | ||
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"have so often | "have so often <del>given ourselves</del> <add>treated our imaginations with,</add> when we have been contemplating the | ||
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"progress of improvement in that rising country. I would strain a | |||
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"point rather than miss of any opportunity of lending a helping | |||
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"hand, though it be ever so distant an one in the prosecution | |||
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"of such a business. I don't see however how we can <add>well</add> settle | |||
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"the matter definitively <add>and talk over all that is to be said on the subject</add> at this distance: I have determined therefore | |||
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"<del>that</del> as soon as the Court Martial is over if M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Sambouski | |||
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"continues to think of me in the same light, <del>I will</del> <add>to</add> come to town". | |||
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[This will give you the merit of coming on purpose</p> | |||
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<p>You must send me back my waistcoat on Thursday. On Friday I | |||
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dine out <add>at Browne's</add> & have nothing to put on - I can return it you <del><unclear>upon</unclear></del> if you | |||
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want it particularly on Friday night. —No — that was my mistake - it is | |||
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tomorrow that I want the waistcoat: and tomorrow it is not <unclear>ha<gap/>able</unclear>.</p> | |||
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S.B. to I.B. Linc.Inn Jan.5.1779
"I need not tell you what pleasure it gave me to find
"Mr Sambouski expressing such sentiments with regard to the
"improvement of useful knowlege in his country; nor how glad I
"should be to co-operate promote as far as my small ability extends, with
"such laudable intentions. commendable wishes views. I need not recal to you the feasts we
"have so often given ourselves treated our imaginations with, when we have been contemplating the
"progress of improvement in that rising country. I would strain a
"point rather than miss of any opportunity of lending a helping
"hand, though it be ever so distant an one in the prosecution
"of such a business. I don't see however how we can well settle
"the matter definitively and talk over all that is to be said on the subject at this distance: I have determined therefore
"that as soon as the Court Martial is over if Mr Sambouski
"continues to think of me in the same light, I will to come to town".
[This will give you the merit of coming on purpose
I.B. to S.B.
You must send me back my waistcoat on Thursday. On Friday I
dine out at Browne's & have nothing to put on - I can return it you upon if you
want it particularly on Friday night. —No — that was my mistake - it is
tomorrow that I want the waistcoat: and tomorrow it is not haable.
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Correspondence |
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Jeremy Bentham |
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