OBSTACLES

PREJUGES

of AGE

Auxiliary to these [i:e: of possession] are those to which men of all classes

[are more or less.] obnoxious on account of in virtue of the

very constitution of their nature

by Time itself.

The rising generation is that + + To this the most penetrating and

experienced observers of human Nature give their Testimony -

D'Alembert

L'Esprit -

Milanges

Discours preliminaire de l'Encyclopedie Milanges de

D'Alembert Vol. 1. 152 4 Ed. Amsterdam.

De

L'Esprit Vol. 2. p. 183. note. Ed. Amsterdam 1759 .

Youth is the age from which &c

Veteraus,

in despair enraged at the thoughts of [being obliged to]

sacrifice discard ing opinions in their old

age that have grown up with them, reluctant to the task of giving an

unwanted motion to springs which the hand of time hath render'd

rigid //

// to disturb ralie up the field in their

days for a new product of which they can not hope to live to see the

harvest

Interests of Authors

No mortification is more cruel yet alas! how necessary, than that of an

Author who was the subject obsoleted in which he has bestow'd his

labors

Who is drained to behold with all a Father's anxiety the children of his

meditations busied in up in the Gulph of

oblivion with the Soil in which they stand he had fixed them.

BOOKSELLERS

Even the Booksellers is an Interest too obvious to be altogether omitted

not if

the account who cannot be supposed

at the the

prospect of seeing the circulating contents of many a profitable

shelf by — sudden blast turned into motionless

unprofitable lumber

Jerem y Bentham Esq r

D r Sir

I went to dine with my brother yesterday

& did not return till the evening, or would have returned

an earlier answer to your kind note.

An inquiry after the longitude or even

perpetual motion, would not have puzzled me more

than your Question: which I cannot possibly resolve

from my own recollection, nor do I in the least Know

where to procure you the desired information: however,

I will attack my banker tomorrow in hopes of there

being some professional list sent round annually to

the Trade. So vale for tonight, & understand that

Mum is the order of the day with

yrs Sincerely R d Till

Swan Passage

London Bridge Sunday aft n

Monday morng. My bankers have marked those houses who they think

existed previous to 1759. but as to the precise years when the others began

Trade, they know of no other method of information but by enquiry

at their respective houses