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<p><!-- This page - 259/001 - appears to be a continuation of page 258/001, and not the immediately preceding 258/002 --><foreign>patres quod non potuere vetare</foreign>. An <foreign>Iudex prohibit<unclear>omes</unclear></foreign> | |||
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was promulgated for his use: & with the exception of the | |||
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Bible, the account book, & perhaps a book on book-keeping | |||
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every book whatsoever was inserted in it. Never were books | |||
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stolen <hi rend="underline">from</hi> with more ingenuity, than with more obstinate | |||
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perseverance he stole to them. — It has not lain in my way | |||
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to take any exact measure of the acquirements he has made | |||
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<hi rend="superscript"><unclear>w</unclear></hi>in the almost nothing of time that he has had for it: he | |||
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is pursuing his road with seven-leagued boots on his legs, towards | |||
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a possible Fellowship in the forcibly conjoined roads | |||
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of Greek & Mathematics. Political Logic, & Etymology are | |||
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those in which he has travelled longest & with most pleasure | |||
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& consequently with most success. I had like to have forgot | |||
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public speaking: it was that which produced the miraculous | |||
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conversion of his Father. For about these dozen years there | |||
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has existed a Society of the lower orders which meets weekly | |||
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at a room in Gt Marlborough Street under the name of the society | |||
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for Mutual Improvement: it has a common Library, & occupies | |||
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itself in debate. About 3 or 4 years ago without the | |||
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least suspicion on my part, it had the whimsical fancy to elect | |||
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me its Patron: the very existence of any such Society, being | |||
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unknown to me: & thus to <sic>enroll</sic> a sworn enemy to sinecurism | |||
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in the goodly fellowship of Sinecurists. Henry Rosser had | |||
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been some time a Member. He had given out a subject <sic>pro</sic> | |||
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proposing to speak upon it. His father found him out & | |||
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<unclear>n</unclear>itched himself in a snug corner unobserved to catch him | |||
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<hi rend="underline"><foreign>in flagrante delicto</foreign></hi>. He heard a speech of an hour & a half | |||
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long & went away in rapture. He declared that his son should | |||
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be a Gentleman; & that for that purpose he should be first <add>a</add></p> | |||
patres quod non potuere vetare. An Iudex prohibitomes
was promulgated for his use: & with the exception of the
Bible, the account book, & perhaps a book on book-keeping
every book whatsoever was inserted in it. Never were books
stolen from with more ingenuity, than with more obstinate
perseverance he stole to them. — It has not lain in my way
to take any exact measure of the acquirements he has made
win the almost nothing of time that he has had for it: he
is pursuing his road with seven-leagued boots on his legs, towards
a possible Fellowship in the forcibly conjoined roads
of Greek & Mathematics. Political Logic, & Etymology are
those in which he has travelled longest & with most pleasure
& consequently with most success. I had like to have forgot
public speaking: it was that which produced the miraculous
conversion of his Father. For about these dozen years there
has existed a Society of the lower orders which meets weekly
at a room in Gt Marlborough Street under the name of the society
for Mutual Improvement: it has a common Library, & occupies
itself in debate. About 3 or 4 years ago without the
least suspicion on my part, it had the whimsical fancy to elect
me its Patron: the very existence of any such Society, being
unknown to me: & thus to enroll a sworn enemy to sinecurism
in the goodly fellowship of Sinecurists. Henry Rosser had
been some time a Member. He had given out a subject pro
proposing to speak upon it. His father found him out &
nitched himself in a snug corner unobserved to catch him
in flagrante delicto. He heard a speech of an hour & a half
long & went away in rapture. He declared that his son should
be a Gentleman; & that for that purpose he should be first a
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