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I joined the company, whom I found sitting in library,  paid  some compliments on the great care which he took of my education, and on his unwearied perseverance and constancy in all his friendships. The father of, said he, was your intimate friend: The son is your pupil; and may indeed be regarded as your adopted son, were we to judge by the pains which you bestow in conveying to him every useful branch of literature and science. You are no more wanting, I am persuaded, in prudence, than in industry. I shall, therefore, communicate to you