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Dear Bentham.<lb/>If my criticism has no other<lb/>mind it will have that of frankness. I don't like<lb/>your preface & <del> should be rather inclined | Dear Bentham.<lb/>If my criticism has no other<lb/>mind it will have that of frankness. I don't like<lb/>your preface & <del> should be rather inclined | ||
</del> if I were to<lb/>decide bet<hi rend="superscript">n</hi>. that & <gap/>should vote for <gap/> it<lb/><gap/>. There is too much levity in it especially <del>both in the style &</del><lb/><del>of <gap/></del>it forms a very striking contrast with the proposed<lb/>title. A man who is about to read of the Constit<hi rend="superscript">n</hi><lb/>not violated only but conquesed of Enormities <gap/><lb/>& of all our most sacred <unclear>Laws</unclear> broken would not expect<lb/>to be so much amused at the outset as he will find himself<lb/>when he has read <add>only</add> a few parag. of the preface. <del>The</del><lb/>In truth it expresses to me that the title is too <unclear>vague</unclear> & the<lb/>prefact much too comic. I don't like your <unclear>phrasing</unclear><lb/>from the attempted language of convenience to the attempted<lb/>conquest of the constit<hi rend="superscript">n</hi>. in 1767. which by the <del>by</del> bye | </del> if I were to<lb/>decide bet<hi rend="superscript">n</hi>. that & <gap/>should vote for <gap/> it<lb/><gap/>. There is too much levity in it especially as <del>both in the style &</del><lb/><del>of <gap/></del>it forms a very striking contrast with the proposed<lb/>title. A man who is about to read of the Constit<hi rend="superscript">n</hi><lb/>not violated only but conquesed of Enormities <gap/><lb/>& of all our most sacred <unclear>Laws</unclear> broken would not expect<lb/>to be so much amused at the outset as he will find himself<lb/>when he has read <add>only</add> a few parag. of the preface. <del>The</del><lb/>In truth it expresses to me that the title is too <unclear>vague</unclear> & the<lb/>prefact much too comic. I don't like your <unclear>phrasing</unclear><lb/>from the attempted language of convenience to the attempted<lb/>conquest of the constit<hi rend="superscript">n</hi>. in 1767. which by the <del>by</del> bye | ||
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Dear Bentham.
If my criticism has no other
mind it will have that of frankness. I don't like
your preface & should be rather inclined
if I were to
decide betn. that & should vote for it
. There is too much levity in it especially as both in the style &
of it forms a very striking contrast with the proposed
title. A man who is about to read of the Constitn
not violated only but conquesed of Enormities
& of all our most sacred Laws broken would not expect
to be so much amused at the outset as he will find himself
when he has read only a few parag. of the preface. The
In truth it expresses to me that the title is too vague & the
prefact much too comic. I don't like your phrasing
from the attempted language of convenience to the attempted
conquest of the constitn. in 1767. which by the by bye
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letter 1790, vol. 7; also printed in bowring, xi, 144 |
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