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age. I had gained some knowledge of it, before I saw your book, from the letters of another English gentleman on that subject; but you have added many curious and interesting particulars, which I have read with much delight and admiration. If I were a few years younger, I would go in pilgrimage to Corsica (as you have done) to visit this living image of ancient virtue, and to venerate in the mind of Pascal Paoli the spirit of Timoleon and Epaminondas. But I must now be content with seeing him in your description, the vivacity of which shews, that your heart is inflamed
