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That ever it should be a task to me to
write to you! and yet such it has been for
some time, yea for a long time, because I
must needs give you a scolding which is
bad, and having nothing particularly good to
accompany it with and sweeten it. Possibly you
may be returned from the Black Sea before
this reaches you: if so you will have been
cursing and storming at me for not sending
you a recent letter to meet you at your arrival.
Your eyes will then have been saluted
with the pure unmixed misery of a Q.S.P.ian
letter unaccounted for and unsoftened
by any one of mine. That letter I did not
read: it was offer'd me, but having been <lb/. bothering myself with him and Mr Yard about<lb/<> you more than enough already, I did not
care to bother myself any more.
I have various articles of accusation against
you circumstanced as you were in point of many
1. For going to this damned Black Sea. 2. For
refusing the offer made you: 3. for building
on so ideal a foundation as the event of
your getting a capital from this country: 4.
for writing a rambling <gap/. of expectation,
grasping at 150 impossibilities at once without
any grounds to go upon. 5. for expecting
that under with all these documents before my eyes
I should place an implicit and idolatrous confidence
in your judgment and savoir-faire.
Other articles perhaps may start up before I
have done.
1. About the Black Sea. In what possible shape
could it advance your views? A la bonne heure
if you had had money of your own to pay the
expence with. It would have been an agreable journey,
and in some degree an instructive one. As
it is too, it may enable you to talk with Kitty
to
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1780-08-06 |
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Correspondence |
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Jeremy Bentham |
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