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<p>of my waiving the Ceremony of leaving a card at y<hi rend="superscript">r</hi>. house | |||
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on my departure, with a much larger share <unclear>of</unclear> | |||
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imperfection than most of my neighbours, I fear that it often | |||
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falls to my lot to offend where no offence is intended; I | |||
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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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which, according to Lord Chesterfield, can alone <add>palliate</add> <del><unclear>gratify</unclear></del> | |||
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eccentricity and weakness.</p> | |||
<p>I went to England after an absence of several months, | |||
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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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book, when <unclear>however</unclear> I found that, I could neither obtain support</p> | |||
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from them or sympathy from others, of whose qualities of | |||
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<sic>of</sic> the | |||
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
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[[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]]] |
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