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⧼toolbar-peri-heading⧽1823 Jan. 6
J.B. to Bolivar for Miranda⧼toolbar-peri-heading⧽

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public schools, nothing to be learnt but Latin and Greek.

of which commodities I understand he has laid in, a greater stock, than
can in your country or any other, be applied to any really
useful purpose. Has he fallen in my way a few years earlier,
I should have recommended it to him or to have added,
or substituted, to a considerable the greatest part of it, an acquaintance
with some of the most useful branches of Art and Science.
His age being about two and twenty, this he would have done six
years ago.
He would even if instead of two and twenty his actual age
he had been but sixteen, if from the age of eight to that age he had passed his time at a school the plan of, Mr Hill's at Haylewood
near Birmingham, with which I have lately become more acquainted, and from hence with a son of the masters who an able lawyer
who has had a
the of
it, and just now
published and admirable
description
of it, a copy of which
Miranda carries
with him.
In addition to languages, from the most
with more or less of the most useful branches of art and science, he would then have learnt,
not only in theory, but even from in practice, though on such a
miniature scale, the arts of legislation and judicature,
taught, in conjunction with private morality, in the most
delightful as well as efficiently instructive manner imaginable.

Identifier: | JB/012/088/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12.
Date_1	1823-01-06	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	012	Main Headings
Folio number	088	Info in main headings field	jb to bolivar for miranda
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d3 / e3
Penner	richard doane	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 2940, vol. 11	ID Number	4149
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