★ Find a new page on our Untranscribed Manuscripts list.
-Chancellor that I might speak in the Theatre, but yt
it depended upon myself, for that I must produce some- -thing
extraordinary, (that was his expression, other wisein which case
I might be pretty sure of succeeding, otherwise I could
not; and that I should not speak of it, 'till it was
determin'd, for fear I should miscarry; in which case
it would be better to have nothing said about it; so I
beg you would not mention'd it. I think of taking for
my subject, Dunkerca deleta, now there is a Poem
in the Musae Anglicanae entitled, Dunkerca delenda,
whence I may mention a Comparison between the then ineffectual, and the effectual
demolition of it, which will be Compleated no doubt
before the Encaenia. I am at liberty to want it make upon any publick
occurrence that has happened since the beginning
of the late war. but this more of this another time. I
begun on the Harpsichord last Tuesday, since which
Identifier: | JB/537/161/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 537. |
|||
---|---|---|---|
1763-03-24 |
|||
537 |
|||
161 |
|||
001 |
|||
Correspondence |
|||
Jeremy Bentham |
|||