Moral and PolHirul Philosopfn/, Book l, chap. V

115. Indicalions cancer niufj lord Kldo)i,Sec\. 11; Bowring, vol. V, p. 349. — Le père de Bentham ne semble pas avoir été un méchant homme : mais de nature vulgaire, résolu à obtenir de ses deux fils, l'un et l'autre remarquablement intelligents, qu'ils se fassent une position et gagnent de l'argent, il se rend insupportable à eux : ils sont fleurs lettres en témoignent) en corispiration prrmanenle contre lui. — La terreur de Bentham

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est amusante, lorsque lord Shelburnc manifeste rin'enlion d'inviter ijon père au château de Bowood. Mss. Brit. Mus. 33, 539, f. 213 (à son frère, le 25 août 1781). « Tlie answer was : « Your Lordship is very good, bot he is full as 'well wherc lie is u.AVas not tliis obliging? What a pretly scène would hâve been exhibited had I sufTer'd my Lord to send for them ? wbat a mixture of bectoring and pufBng, and self-complaccncy and cringing and self-ostentation and forced civility ».

116. M«s. Brit. Mus. 33, 537, fT. 242-3, U oct. 1772: — In tlie mean time, excuse the liberty I take in supposing that with regard to somc parts tbat abstruscness may possibly nppcar greator to you in common w'iih otbers of your former profession, than to men at large, as, besides baving a new langnage to acquire, you bave the old one to unlearn. As to myself, if I bad waitcd till I had been immerscd in the depths of practice, I am satisfied I shoutd ncverhad hadability, cven if 1 had had inclination, to engage in the design... Forgivc me, Sir, if I déclare simply, and once for ail, that till this great business is disposed of, I feel myself iinable of any other. — The WUl is berc out of the question. Whalever may be the case with othors, 1 find it impossible with me to bring tlie powers of invention to a mechani4:al obédience to the good pleasure of that faculty. — The sensé of necessily which may set them at work in some, strikes me motionless. 1 am in Ihis respect likc David : I can a give no melody in my heaviness ». In the track I am in, I march up with alacrity and hopc : in any other I should crawl on with despondency and reluetance. — If lam not likely to suceeed in a pursuit in whioh I am engngod >vith afTeclion and with strong pi>csentimcnts of success : much less am I where both arc wanting : I mean situated as I am at présent — any lolcrable amount of success in suchan undertakiug as mine, you are sensible, must need work a considérable révolution » .