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Sent from Hendon. Novr 10th Tuesday 1789
A cover An inclosure from Warwick!- I tremble with apprehension what can
it inclose? portend My own stuff back again?
Let me feel — it is hardly thick enough for that
a severe and freezing reprimand? I will et me
Suppose it be - I will pluck up my shirts , and face it at any rate,
face it however — Compassion and submission
may perhaps make my peace — But why
thus apprehension? as if any reprimand, how
severe soever, would not be less so <add>than</add> disdainful could be as severe as silence?
In the midst of While Reading these debates were going on, the
letter has been lying lay a good hour unopened on the
table. [+] My procrastinating In every cast of the die<add>face supposition</add> temper finds
in either side of the alternative in reason for delay — If bad news something unpleasant is apprehended,
the evil hour moment is to be slaved off:
of something phasing is expected,, the pleasure flutter<add>luxury</add> of expectation
is to be protracted.
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [lion with crown motif]]] |
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letter 687, vol. 4 |
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