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Rh friend Aristippus did to Dionysius; "you have money, which I want; I have wit and knowledge, which you want." I long to see your travels ; for, take it as you will, I do not retract what I said. I will undertake to find, in two pages of your bagatelles, more good sense, useful knowledge, and true religion, than you can show me in the works of nineteen in twenty of the profound divines and philosophers of the age.

I am obliged to return to Paris in a month or six weeks time, and from thence will send you my picture. Would to Heaven I could send you as like a picture of my mind: you would find yourself, in that draught, the object of the truest esteem, and the sincerest friendship.

REVEREND SIR,

TAKE the opportunity of two of our choir going over to try their fortune in your country, at once to return my thanks for a very obliging letter you favoured me with some years ago, and your kind interpretation of my endeavours at that time to assert the cause of our establishment against a prelate who was undermining it: and also to recommend to your favour the bearer, Mr. Elford; who upon the encouragement of your worthy primate, is going to settle