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he may be able to muster up will be supported in the most powerful
manner by an excellent and amiable character which
I dare venture to pronounce will never quit him. In this point
however I speak rather from universal report than from particular
experience: His father has opened to me a good deal
of late and I am become one of the Cabinet Council there, dining
there regularly once a week. With the son I have not equal
intimacy, nothing in particular having happened to lead to
it. Your age and character fits you better for an intimacy
with him — my the schoolmasterishness of mine acting necessa
naturally as a repellent. He pretends to have read and to
like my great book: but has never expressed any desire to
enter into particular discussions about it, and I question whether
he has force of mind enough and a sufficient talent & relish
for close reasoning to be governed by it. His father and I have
lately come to a of explanantion: and the result
of it is that he is as zealous as myself for universal liberty
of
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