Letters of the Earl of Dudley to the Bishop of Llandaff (1840)
by John William Ward Dudley (9780217301756)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LETTER III. 130, Park Street, Friday, Feb. 4, 1814. My Dear Copleston. I Am very glad you like my paper upon Miss E. Any observations that the reading of her book may suggest to you, I shall be much obliged to you for communicating to me. But don't trouble yourself to write sooner than may be convenient?two or three days are no object to me. I have heard it doubted whether Miss E. means Lord Ellenborough by her Chief Justice. How does the thing strike you ? Whether she does or does not, the passage is almost equally absurd. At first it seemed generally understood that it was designed as a compliment to the actual C. J. The other theory is an after-thought. I did not mean to refer you to more than the two first sentences of the paragraph in Eschines; after that it grows inapplicable. But those two This being the constant style of beginning his letters, it has been thought best to avoid a perpetual repetition of the same words. At first it was resolved to continue them, because they convey the idea that the letter, as printed, is not only genuine, but entire. I have therefore, once for all, to state that they are entire letters?not extracts; that there are no alterations-? nor any omissions?except what have been thought necessary under the principle announced in the Preface, viz. not to give pain or just cause of offence to any living person. The exercise of this principle has been very rarely called for. FRANCE?THE " CORSAIR." are wonderfully beautiful, and wonderfully adapted to the situation of affairs just after the battle of Leipsic. What think you of the chance of the Bourbons now ? I am afraid it is very small indeed, and I know that within the last week or two their own hopes have very much declined. In wishing for their restoration, I quite agree...

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