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that a mans gratitude towards his instructors is
not the less lively for his never having been
subject to their power. From the perceptors
that were chosen and who were for me [+] I never got any
[+] English fellows of colleges
English Banks thing: from those I happened to choose for
myself were mostly and from whom I got
the seeds of almost every thing I value myself
for were mostly Frenchmen: Helvetius D'Alembert
and Voltaire: not to mention persons
living and of whom I could not without
affectation speak in the third person.
Let us then go hand on hand my
friend with our sacrifices you to the altar
of patriotism m I to that of gratitude
and philanthropy.
To the account above-mentioned I may
add a guinea and a half which I actually
paid for copying what M. & Mm Necker
had not time to read.
I would not even swear but what I may
get reimbursed my £100 even in this country:
and then I shall have the men at the service of
yours. For the Defence of usury has been
out of print some time: and even in Ireland the
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