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Excerpt from The Works of Samuel Parr, Vol. 8 of 8: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, and a Selection From His Correspondence
Being but a bad scholar in rhetoric, when I get into a meta phor, or an allegory, I get into a scrape the sooner I am out of it the better. It is high time for me to return to my theme, and prefer in plain English my petition for some good Greek. If I go on as I have already begun, I shall, in no long time, and no large space, give them, in addition to observations on this their Constitutional code, or proposed code, another of my own, with reasons for every article, and distinguishable part of an article the whole as much compressed as possible. If they come up to my terms, as above, I shall finish, or at least endeavour to finish, what, in a very few days, I have already made very considerable progress in, and in the original English print and publish it here. Moreover, if you will furnish me with a correspondent portion of Parrian Greek to put by the side of it, English and Greek shall be printed column-wise, and thus we will descend to posterity together, hand in hand, cheek by jowl, till old time is tired of carrying us.
My good fortune has just now brought me a disciple, able, I have every reason to believe, as well as willing - willing to-a de gree of enthusiasm, to do what is requisite to the completing for the press those papers of mine on the Rationale of Evidence, of the fragment of which, containn the first 140 pages, you have had a cow, I believe, almost ever since it was printed. It had in those days the good fortune to find favour in your sight should that same favour, or any moderate portion Of it, abide still, this will be not unacceptable news to you.
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