I only wish that the ra of my begetting, as well as the mode and manner of it, had been a little alter'd, ----or that it could have been put off, with any convenience to my father or mother, for some twenty or five-and-twenty years longer, when a man in the literary world might have stood some chance.----

I only wish that the time of my begetting, as well as the manner of it, had been a little altered, - or that it could have been put off, without any inconvenience to my father or mother, for another five-and-twenty years, when a man in the literary world might have stood some chance.
