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<p> <add> 1781- | <p> <add> 1781-10-18</add> </p> <p> <del> <gap/> <gap/> <gap/> <gap/> <gap/> <gap/> <gap/> <gap/> </del></p> <p>Since my arrival at my "<hi rend="underline">Villa</hi>", a subject <lb/> on which the public prints have been scandalously silent)<lb/> I have been honoured with two instances <add> testimonies</add> of your Lordship's<lb/> kind attention. In the first I am told that "All Bowood<lb/> "desire to be <sic>remember'd</sic> by me": as if any part of Bowood<lb/> could ever cease to be <sic>remember'd</sic> by me, while gratitude, <lb/> or any quality I could ever value myself on, remained <lb/> <del>with</del> <add> in </add> me. In the latter I am informed, that my "Bowood<lb/> "friends are impatient to know how my hand does." Those <lb/> reproaches, as they might seem if literally taken, <add> for not writing</add> may, I <lb/> think upon the fairest and least flattering interpretation, be <lb/> construed into a permission <add> to write</add>. In this light I avail myself <lb/> of them: for without <del> such</del> <add> some especial </add> warrant, my Lord, I should <lb/> hardly have ventured to have given you any trouble with <lb/> my pen, in addition to the unconscionable bond which particular</p> | ||
1781-10-18
Since my arrival at my "Villa", a subject
on which the public prints have been scandalously silent)
I have been honoured with two instances testimonies of your Lordship's
kind attention. In the first I am told that "All Bowood
"desire to be remember'd by me": as if any part of Bowood
could ever cease to be remember'd by me, while gratitude,
or any quality I could ever value myself on, remained
with in me. In the latter I am informed, that my "Bowood
"friends are impatient to know how my hand does." Those
reproaches, as they might seem if literally taken, for not writing may, I
think upon the fairest and least flattering interpretation, be
construed into a permission to write. In this light I avail myself
of them: for without such some especial warrant, my Lord, I should
hardly have ventured to have given you any trouble with
my pen, in addition to the unconscionable bond which particular
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Jeremy Bentham |
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