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Tuesday Dec: 26 1780 1/2 after 7 in the eveng
I was going to write to night at all events:
but now I find a letter of yours on my table;
dated Novr 21 O.S. = 2d Decr that and a dish of Tea dispatched, and I
resume the pen. It was to tell you about the
forwardship of transl. Introd.
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well now I have reced it; but I wish the
Devil had flown away with it instead
of the Postman's brining it here. If it be
true that there is so little chance of doing
any thing there, it would have been much
better for me not to have known it till
after my affair is finished. I shant be
able now to write a letter worth a farthing.
By the bye I must now tell you since
I have never told you yet that when
you supposed me to have number'd the
paragraphs in my rough draught in the
same manner as those were seem to have been
in the copy which is sent you, you did
me too much honour: for want of which
your criticisms could not be perfectly understood.
To apply that comparison send
me therefore the two first words of each
paragraph along with the number of it
this you must do without loss of time as
you will see by the sequel.</p.
It is a monstrous plague to me your
driving it into my head with a fresh
mallet every post that it must must
must be in French; when it can't can't
can't be in French, and so there's an end
of it. You might as well tell me it must
be
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Jeremy Bentham |
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