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<head>1820 Nov. 28 sent Dec<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> 19<lb/>J. B. to Rochefoucault <!-- Pencil note --></head><add>1</add><lb/><head>Jeremy Bentham to the Duc de la Rochefoucault</head><!-- Francois XII, duc de Rochefoucault Liancourt, 1747 - 1827 --><lb/>Dear Sir<lb/>Do you remember any such name? A<hi rend="superscript">o</hi> <!-- Latin Anno, in the year --> 1792<lb/>at Queens <sic>Squar</sic> Place Westminster; A<hi rend="superscript">o</hi> <!-- Latin Anno, in the year --> 1802 at <sic>Liancour</sic>?<lb/> I will make the experiment. For my past, <note><del><gap/></del> weak and decayed<lb/>as is my<lb/>memory as to most<lb/>things,</note> the<lb/>hospitalities of that place — the confusing <gap/> — every<lb/>thing else belonging to <del>the</del> <del><gap/></del> <add>it — are</add> almost as fresh in my mind<lb/>this day as they were on the next to that: the <del><gap/></del> Ladies<lb/>whom I dare not name, <del>blond</del> <add>dreading the blunders I should make</add> <del>fearful</del> <del>I <gap/> of</del><lb/><del><gap/> <gap/></del> <add>on the ground of</add> French genealogical nomenclature; <del><gap/> <gap/></del><lb/><del>breach of time in which I never could pass such</del><lb/><del>my performing, bred as I was in England where, of a</del><lb/><del>were not for <gap/> <gap/> peerage (which <gap/> <add><gap/></add> deliverance</del><lb/><del>from) <gap/> would on this ground <gap/> <gap/></del><lb/> <del>against</del><lb/><del>science</del>: The Comte de la Rochefoucault — (I think I am right <hi rend="underline">there</hi>) who had the goodness to <sic>shew</sic><lb/>me the providentially — saved library — <add>and</add> who, had there<lb/>been any use in it, might have passed any where for<lb/>an Englishman — a name then already beginning to sink<lb/>and now a disgrace. The picture he gave <add>me, on <del><gap/></del> that occasion</add> <del><gap/></del> of a certain<lb/>Commander in Chief of ours <add>was</add> <del><gap/></del> not <del>borne</del> thrown away upon<lb/><del>me: then there was the master of the Ita</del><lb/>me. When he went to Vienna, my eyes followed him in<lb/>the Newspapers — my wishes making that decomposition<lb/>which in war time is as common — <del><gap/></del> bespeaking <del><gap/></del><lb/><del><gap/> <gap/></del> <add>for</add> the <unclear>diplomatist</unclear> <add>that</add> disappointment <del>and at the same</del> which as an Englishman<lb/>I could do no otherwise than <gap/> & <gap/> <add><gap/></add>, and at the same<lb/>time <del>every</del> for the individual every prosperity that was<lb/>compatible <del><gap/></del> with it. <del>with the disappointments which we are</del> <del><add>Englishmen I <gap/><lb/>but wish to the Ambassador.</add></del><pb/> | |||
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1820 Nov. 28 sent Decr 19
J. B. to Rochefoucault 1
Jeremy Bentham to the Duc de la Rochefoucault
Dear Sir
Do you remember any such name? Ao 1792
at Queens Squar Place Westminster; Ao 1802 at Liancour?
I will make the experiment. For my past, weak and decayed
as is my
memory as to most
things, the
hospitalities of that place — the confusing — every
thing else belonging to the it — are almost as fresh in my mind
this day as they were on the next to that: the Ladies
whom I dare not name, blond dreading the blunders I should make fearful I of
on the ground of French genealogical nomenclature;
breach of time in which I never could pass such
my performing, bred as I was in England where, of a
were not for peerage (which deliverance
from) would on this ground
against
science: The Comte de la Rochefoucault — (I think I am right there) who had the goodness to shew
me the providentially — saved library — and who, had there
been any use in it, might have passed any where for
an Englishman — a name then already beginning to sink
and now a disgrace. The picture he gave me, on that occasion of a certain
Commander in Chief of ours was not borne thrown away upon
me: then there was the master of the Ita
me. When he went to Vienna, my eyes followed him in
the Newspapers — my wishes making that decomposition
which in war time is as common — bespeaking
for the diplomatist that disappointment and at the same which as an Englishman
I could do no otherwise than & , and at the same
time every for the individual every prosperity that was
compatible with it. with the disappointments which we are Englishmen I
but wish to the Ambassador.
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