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Upon such an occasion as this, I should deem myself ungrateful indeed, was I, to withold the little tribute I have in my power to pay to that genuine worth and disinterested friendship, which I have experienced in you.
Sure I am that a person of your amiable disposition, whose heart glows with the utmost warmth of social affection, whose mind is enriched with the treasures of ancient and modern learning, and whose taste has been improved and refined, by an acquaintance and conversation with men of the first rank in life and of the greatest abilities in the learned world, must be eminently useful to mankind, and particularly adorn and bless the land wherein providence calls him to reside. With great reason, therefore, may we hope to see you become a distinguished ornament to society. With great reason may the place of your nativity claim the advantages which arise from such abilities, and
