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TO THE FIRST EDITION.

The following pages are an attempt to delineate the pleasures arising from the mutual endearments of FRIENDSHIP, with all the great and heroic deeds inspired by this disinterested feeling of the soul.

It is described as the first of intellectual enjoyments, the most valuable of all earthly possessions and die indissoluble bond, by which virtuous hearts