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Wednesday March 25.th 1761.
Dear Papa
Having had several interruptions from my Acquaintance just as I was
writing my letter to you, I could not send you my Translation on Sunday as I intended: for
one day Mr Skate came to drink Tea with me, another Mr Godsalve, and another a Westminster
acquaintance that I believe you never heard me speak off, so it does not signify
mentioning his name. I find this part of Tully in several places extremely difficult, so that a page or
perhaps 2 or 3 lines, will take me up as much time to translate as 4 or 5 of his other
works, and indeed all the Tusculan questions in general, are the hardest Latin I ever met
with; not so much because the construction is difficult, tho' that is none of the easiest,
but oftentimes frequently when I have got the Syntax of it it is sometime before I can not make head nor tail of it: this
often happens when 2 Sentences are joined by some sort of conjunction; when each seems to
have nothing to do with the other: for tho' I could translate each of them literally, yet if till I
do not have finound out the Relation they bear to one another, and by what means the Sense is connected,
I cannot there's no such thing as makeg an intelligible Translation. — I long to hear how poor dear Sammy
does, whether he is recovered from his Illness, and hope I shall assoon as you have received
this letter.
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Jeremy Bentham |
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