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even in my judgement, so wrong were you so much as not notice it.
Meantime, in your giving me any sort of answer, I see more difficulties than possibly you yourself see. Whatsoever may be your plans of beneficence, in this my retreat it is altogether impossible for me to know or judge to what a degree the success accomplishment of them might be endangered by your being known to have, even in this interventional and distant way, any communication with me. Many a man, who has long been seconding my designs, would no more dare to mention my name with any mark of approbation, than at Paris to exhibit a bust of Bonaparte. Mr. H. for ought I know, may be of the number: for, which the spirit of my works, howsoever compressed by prudence, breathes in every page of his, all which taking the Quarterly Review Bookseller for his publisher, he makes no more mention of me than if I had never been in existence. This sort of terror is in the nature of the case; and every man who has laboured as I have done ought to be fully prepared to be the continued object of it. Under such circumstances, an answer in any shape would unavoidably amount to a certain degree of confidence. Taking my chance for being believed, I will tell you how, under the above mentioned impression, I have dealt by the sort of confidence already reposed in me: a half confidence I must call it - for such and no more it was - though even that was as much as the occasion required, and
Identifier: | JB/011/203/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 11. |
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law amendment |
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203 |
jb to sec peel |
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correspondence |
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recto |
f9 / f10 / f11 |
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john flowerdew colls |
w weatherley 1825 |
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1825 |
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3900 |
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