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imperfection than most of my neighbours, I fear that it often
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can however lay my hand on my heart and truly say
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that, I have never willingly allowed my failings to trifle with
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the feelings or wound the honest pride of any Soul
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living: It is not in my Nature to do so, if even I
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possessed that greatness of intellect and abstraction of thought,
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eccentricity and weakness.</p>
 
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with a view of publishing the more mature result of my
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journey to Spain. Circumstances which it is needless to
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explain, rendered it necessary that I should enter into <unclear>an</unclear>
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negotiation with certain booksellers for the publication of my
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from them or sympathy from others, of whose qualities of
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of my waiving the Ceremony of leaving a card at yr. house
on my departure, with a much larger share of
imperfection than most of my neighbours, I fear that it often
falls to my lot to offend where no offence is intended; I
can however lay my hand on my heart and truly say
that, I have never willingly allowed my failings to trifle with
the feelings or wound the honest pride of any Soul
living: It is not in my Nature to do so, if even I
possessed that greatness of intellect and abstraction of thought,
which, according to Lord Chesterfield, can alone palliate gratify
eccentricity and weakness.

I went to England after an absence of several months,
with a view of publishing the more mature result of my
journey to Spain. Circumstances which it is needless to
explain, rendered it necessary that I should enter into an
negotiation with certain booksellers for the publication of my
book, when however I found that, I could neither obtain support


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from them or sympathy from others, of whose qualities of
of the




Identifier: | JB/010/065/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 10.

Date_1

1821-08-07

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

010

Main Headings

poor law

Folio number

065

Info in main headings field

Image

002

Titles

Category

correspondence

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

Penner

edward blaquiere

Watermarks

hagar & co 1820

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

jeremy bentham; john flowerdew colls

Paper Produced in Year

1820

Notes public

[[notes_public::letter 2791, vol. 10; "showed above / to miss wright, who undertook to explain / matters to him, if / she saw him" [note in bentham's hand]]]

ID Number

3501

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