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 pamphlet, were first made known and presented to me, by a school fellow who had quitted us for the University, and who, during the whole time that he was in our first form (or in our school language a ) had been my patron and protector. I refer to, the truly learned, and every way excellent Bishop of Calcutta:

It was a double pleasure to me, and still remains a tender recollection, that I should have received from a friend so revered the first knowledge of a poet, by whose works, year after year, I was so enthusiastically delighted and inspired. My earliest acquaintances will not have forgotten the undisciplined eagerness and impetuous zeal, with which I laboured to make proselytes, not only of my companions, but of all with whom I conversed, of whatever rank, and in whatever place. As my school