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"afterwards if the subject & the success, please you - I
"hinted at the danger of you being forestalled,- by which I do
"not only mean, that other people, by the progress of reason, may
"make the same discoveries,- you know there are stray copies
"of your Introduction abroad, particularly that you gave to
"Lord Ashburton - others which are now in safe hands, may, by
"death, get into those which are not safe. I have often been
"tempted to think that Taley had either seen your Introduction,
"or conversed with somebody that was intimate with you -
"There are many things in his book so like you, & so out of
"the common road, that they cannot be the production of the
"same person who wrote other things in the same book
which are really puerile.
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copy of letter 632, vol. 4; also printed in bowring, x, 195 |
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