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Feb:y 24 1795
Dear and Kind Friend
The presentation of the little Book was as grateful, as flattering and so much the more, as its contents will if rightly used improve the little Stock of learning and religion of its present professor; if I was a poet I would thank you worthily and Hesiod should sing the praises of Homer, not cross the Sea to contend with him for the Tripod
Do not suppose that you are one of those, forgotten as soon as out of sight, much of our discourse since your departure has been, “where now is the Bard, what is he doing. I hope he is well and happy, he is in a poetic rapture, he is engaged in some benevolent employment for his poor, neighbours, Oh! that I could see him”
I think that you and I shall want other no other inducement to exercise us in great and noble works than the Consideration, that