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Dear Papa
I beg your pardon for not writing so
soon as I promised in my last, but what with my
business in the Schools, and what with Acquaintances
dropping in in the Afternoon upon me I was always
interrupted. on Fryday I went up for the first time as Respondent,
since which I have been up twice as Opponent, this
day for the 3d time, and on the 24th shall go up a-
-gain as Respondent. it is very uncomfortable
work, as we stay an hour and a half or more in
the Cold; the Fees are 1/2 a Crown each time. I have
finished Homers Iliad, and also the Ethic Compen-
-dium; I think of looking over the Odyssey, as I
intend to be examined in it, good part of which
I read at School Mr Jefferson has began Natu-
-ral Philosophy with us yesterday; but whether he
shall improve much or no I can't tell, as he has
no apparatus; but to day Dr Bliss's Lectures will
begin, andwhichom I hope I may attend his next Course, which,
will be next Year: Dr Smith also begins his Course
of Anatomy to day; and as he will have the Man that
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Correspondence |
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Jeremy Bentham |
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