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42 | n.1 | after | xii. 298 (March 1822) |
add | a copy of xiii. 297 in the hand of Doane is at xiii. 295 | ||
147 | n.7 | delete | Priestly's |
add | Priestley's | ||
194 | n.16 | replace current note with: | In 1779 Samuel Bentham had composed a broadsheet entitled 'Sir William Petty's Plan for a System of Instruction relative to the business of the Marine Department, in the same words as in the original; but with the articles transposed; and marginal titles, supplemental articles, and remarks added', which was printed but never published. The work was based on a short piece by Sir William Petty (1623-87), political economist, entitled 'What a Compleat Treatise of Navigation should contain', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. xvii, no. cxcviii (1694), 657-9. A copy of the broadsheet is bound with other works of Samuel Bentham in Naval Papers and Documents referred to in Naval Essays, London, 1828 (British Library shelf-mark 716.d.28). |
204 | n.1 | add | A brouillon of a reply to this Letter is at UC x. 101-2, dated 16 February 1823, and headed by Bentham: 'J.B. to Lureotis in answer to his Letter stating the desire of the Greek Legistive Council to receive J.B.s advice touching their Constitution. Brouillon thus commenced but not sent.' |
238-65 | n.1 | add | Drafts of this Letter dated 3 June 1823 in the hand of Bentham are at UC xii. 129, 131, 132, 133. |
n.7 | add | A draft of this note in Bentham's hand and dated 26 June 1823 is at UC xii. 130. | |
n.17 | add | A draft of this note in Bentham's hand and dated 27 March 1827 is at UC xii. 134. | |
277 | n.1 |
before insert |
Balliol College, Oxford. David Urquhart Papers I A6.1, |
356 | n.6v | replace current note with: | Bentham perhaps refers to Liber de Officiis, Leipzig, 1722, a moral treatise of Nicolaos Mavrokordatos (1670-1730), a Phanariote ruler of the Danubian Principalities, and a man of letters. The book was originally written in Greek and subsequently translated into Latin by Stephan Bergler. |
add at the end | Or the moral treatise of Nicolaos Mavrokordatos (1670-1730), translated into Latin by Stephan Bergler in 1722 as Liber de Officiis. |