18 Jan y 1810

Parl y. Reform

+ '.3

Ch.18 Sp. ?

'.3. Friendship continued

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I prefer the interests of my family to myself, my friends to my family, my country to my friends, mankind /humankind/ to my country - Such was the scale of preference professed, and probably /not improbably/ to a considerable /in no inconsiderable/ degree acted upon, by the reverend and celebrated truly venerable author of Telemachus. unaffected philanthropy of the kind and truly venerable author of Telemachus.

{Of the Orator /political preacher/ of S t Stephen's Chapel the scale of preference, if compleated, would it seems but too probable, be rather the reverse /a subversion/ of them the same with that of the virtuous Fenelon. /Frenchman./}

Such is the order of preference which surely {by} a man of true philanthropy, (which if sound morality is /be/ resolvable into philanthropy is as much as to say a man of sound morality) would wish to see held up /up for imitation/ /up to serve as a mark for the direction of the conduct of mankind/ held up more specially in any /all/ those high /distinguished/ situations /characters/ which who by the authority with which they are /stand/ invested, and by the influence which, by such opinions as they are understood to express, they exercise in the understandings of the admiring crowd below.