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1824 Feb. 13
J.B. to Greek Government Legislature

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Their ministers first principles of invitation Letter !

— Legislators of Greece regimented Greece!

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By With What the the degree of discernment the tokens in which character of ap
approbation with which that token of approbation your government has been pleased
to reward to honour me have been a small part of the labours of my in which a long protracted
life has been employed, it belongs not to him who has been the object
of it, but to the world at large, to pronounce: but as of

Whether any such
praise as that of
discernment is ascribable
to those
tokens of approbation
with which you have
been pleased to bestow
me it belongs to the
public world at large
not to him who is
the object of it to
pronounce..

[+] Whether to those for the
tokens the sort of encouragement
with which
you have been pleased
to honour me, any
such praise as that is due
is due as that of discernment is due
it belongs to the world
at large, not to this
him who is the object
of it, to prominence.
Of the magnanimity magnanimous and independent spirit independence manifested
in an address of this complection to a man
so perfectly whose position is so compleatly destitute of every thing that is in use to by which which could render him
to be extracted from ordinary mind in the of being an object of such nature to ordinary mind,
to a man, from whom no service could can possibly have been looked for in any shape but
that in which a small particle of it has already been so richly remunerated, there
can be but one opinion: that such is the honour your
government body has conferred on itself, and by nothing
it wants to more that I could say could any addition be made
to it.

The honour As to me, to the illustration conferred on me by
of such a letter, has been added the more singular extraordinary one
of its being delivered by the hand of the very man person
by whom in quality by whose signature in his your character of President of your Council body
it was authenticated; and I have
the happiness to call my personal friend
and a man whose warrant I have already for calling
him by the endearing name of Son. Orlando said I to him 't'other day[1])
in French[+] thus and thus only if at all I must address you can I bring myself
[+] — thus and thus only
can I address you.
thus I
address you and
Thus only can I

address you. Monsieur
Orlando?
My lips
close against the words.
to address you my lips absolutely can not bring themselves
to put the Monsieur before your name: who
ever said or says Monsieur Solon? Monsieur
Pericles? Monsieur Epaminondas? Monsieur Philopoemen? Who ever heard
any such barbarisms?
Permitt Suffer me to Let me but call you father (was his the answer) and call me what you
please.

Identifier: | JB/012/187/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12.
Date_1	1824-02-13	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	012	Main Headings
Folio number	187	Info in main headings field	jb to greek legislature
Image	001	Titles	letter i
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1823
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1823
Notes public	draft of letter 3049, vol. 11	ID Number	4248
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