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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 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 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 in the of being an object of such nature to ordinary men, to a man, from whim 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 government body has conferred in 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 can I address you. thus I address you and Thus only can I address you. Monsieur Orland? My lips close against the words.
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jeremy bentham |
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jonathan blenman |
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draft of letter 3049, vol. 11 |
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