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have heard of my father's choice, & from the best authority: for
such is in this case that of a Son-in-law, who is but too often the last person
to do it justice to his mother-in-law. I began to be acquainted with her
shortly after my own Mother's death: as soon, or I believe, a little
sooner than my father: for some years there has been the strictest
intimacy between the two families: she always had my esteem in the
highest degree: & it cost me little to improve that esteem into
respect, when the voice of duty required it of me. since their marriage
she has ever behaved to me & my Brother to say all speak in a one word, in the
same manner, (making an allowance for the difference of ages between
them & me), as to her own Children, whom she tenderly loves. they form
together a little Triumvirate, in which, very differently from the
2 great Cabals that go by for whom <add>distinguished by</add> that name , there reigns an the most perfect harmony.
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Correspondence |
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Jeremy Bentham |
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