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<p><del>at open upon </del> <add>await the result of</add> the communication and the <unclear>confirmer</unclear> — <del>But</del></p> | <p><del>at open upon </del> <add>await the result of</add> the communication and the <unclear>confirmer</unclear> — <del>But</del></p> | ||
<p>But if such be the cost and difficulty that <add>press</add> hang upon <lb/>this first step, in what further length of time can a<lb/> man <add>now </add> in the decline of life be permitted to look for the accomplishment<lb/> of the <hi rend='superscript'>+</hi> <note><hi rend='superscript'>+</hi> so much wider search</note> <add>subsequently</add> announced perambulation to be performed<lb/> in that august circle of which <del> | <p>But if such be the cost and difficulty that <add>press</add> hang upon <lb/>this first step, in what further length of time can a<lb/> man <add>now </add> in the decline of life be permitted to look for the accomplishment<lb/> of the <hi rend='superscript'>+</hi> <note><hi rend='superscript'>+</hi> so much wider search</note> <add>subsequently</add> announced perambulation to be performed<lb/> in that august circle of which the <del>Majestys </del> <lb/> Last High Chancellor is the center? In the mean time<lb/> — how deep soever may be the <sic>offence</sic> given by the obnoxious <lb/>project — putting aside every such wild and romantic <lb/>and exotic and <gap/> idea as that of <hi rend='underline'>obligation</hi> — consulting<lb/> nothing but the dictates of that <add>mercy — of</add> mercy of which<lb/> Your Lordship's breast under his Majesty's is <add>it seems</add> the fountain — <lb/>is it not almost time my Lord, that both together — <lb/>project and projector — had their <hi rend='underline'><foreign>coup de grace</foreign></hi>? </p> | ||
<p>Pardon me more this excursion my Lord into <lb/>which this conceit of <add>about <hi rend='underline'>obligation</hi> <gap/> — my <gap/></add> my noble friends has somehow<lb/> or other betrayed me: <del>To him I</del> <add>Upon him I lay </add> the <unclear> blame</unclear> for Your<lb/> Lordship sees it is <add>the proposition of his not mine</add> none of mine, though <del>I think</del> I am <note>and alike unfortunate in the projectors office </note> confident I have met with something not very different from <lb/>it in books — <del>In</del> I say in books: for it is from that<lb/> source I must have drawn [my conception] and not from<lb/> any <add><del>thing</del> like</add> experience [I have had of the official world] <note>if any such conceptions have ever been entertained by me as</note> if it <lb/>has ever seemed to me [the <add>laws</add> acts of Parliament were not<lb/> made to be trod upon, engagements to be broken,] seals of <lb/>office were not made to be | |||
24 Nov 1802
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at open upon await the result of the communication and the confirmer — But
But if such be the cost and difficulty that press hang upon
this first step, in what further length of time can a
man now in the decline of life be permitted to look for the accomplishment
of the + + so much wider search subsequently announced perambulation to be performed
in that august circle of which the Majestys
Last High Chancellor is the center? In the mean time
— how deep soever may be the offence given by the obnoxious
project — putting aside every such wild and romantic
and exotic and idea as that of obligation — consulting
nothing but the dictates of that mercy — of mercy of which
Your Lordship's breast under his Majesty's is it seems the fountain —
is it not almost time my Lord, that both together —
project and projector — had their coup de grace?
Pardon me more this excursion my Lord into
which this conceit of about obligation — my my noble friends has somehow
or other betrayed me: To him I Upon him I lay the blame for Your
Lordship sees it is the proposition of his not mine none of mine, though I think I am and alike unfortunate in the projectors office confident I have met with something not very different from
it in books — In I say in books: for it is from that
source I must have drawn [my conception] and not from
any thing like experience [I have had of the official world] if any such conceptions have ever been entertained by me as if it
has ever seemed to me [the laws acts of Parliament were not
made to be trod upon, engagements to be broken,] seals of
office were not made to be
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