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EVENTS & APPEARANCES

PRESENT TIMES, &c.

OU have, I hear, desired I should send you the pamphlet, entitled The Signs of the Times; It is not at hand with me at present, but you will soon find it in Edinburgh.

I think I have never wrote you before, your enquiry about the observers of the times, gives me to hope, that your mind is not altogether enchanted with the charms of Grecian and Roman poets, sages, and orators, which, however much their sublime thoughts and flowery stile enlarge the genius, exalt the speech, and accomplish you to speak in public, still consider, that the true study of the heart should be, acquaintance