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A775 Beagle Library: Forster, Johann Reinhold. 1778. Observations made during a voyage round the world on physical geography, natural history, and ethnic philosophy. London: G. Robinson. Text

RELIGION. Their present system of religion is a polytheism, which may be called one of the best and least exceptionable as yet known. The name EATO A, admits a very great latitude in its interpretation; for though it properly signifies a Divinity, it may likewise be interpreted a Genius. However they admit a Being whom they call Eato a-rab i, which is the supreme Deity above all. Each of the isles surrounding Taheitee, has its peculiar god, or as we may justly call it, its tutelar Divinity

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the caprice of the High Priest; who, on this occasion, has an opportunity, not only of indulging his private revenge against any man, by whom he may think himself injured, but also of practising at the same time one of the most abominable scenes of priest-craft that ever took, place; for it is said, that on certain occasions, when the nation is solemnly assembled, the High Priest alone enters the house of God, or the marai, and after staying there for some time, he returns and informs the

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found in the house two rude figures of a man similar to the Te hee at Taheitee. I inquired whether they called it an Eato ca, they said no; I again asked how they called it, and I was told Te ghee; I inquired whether they prayed to it, this they denied, and kicked the figures with their feet, to shew that they did not pay the least respect to them. * The name Assayetooca seems to signify the house of God: for farre is a house in the Friendly-isles and E-atooca is the name of God, which would form

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. The god of earthquakes, mentioned before, proves, that they some how refer the present condition of their isles, to a great earthquake as a general cause: and the great land they remember, and of which their isles are fragments, seems to imply, that they have not forgotten that their habitations formerly were parts of a great continent, destroyed by earthquakes, and a violent flood, which the dragging of the land through the sea seems to indicate. CHAP. [page] 16

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, fishes, c. c. O-Mao we created the sun, and then took the immense rock O-Te-p pa; his wife, and dragged her from West to East through the seas: when the isles, which the natives now inhabit, were broken off; after which he left this great land to the East, where it still exists. The care and government of each island was committed to the inferior divinities, enumerated before. The god T ne, is not more particularly addressed than the rest of his brother divinities, nor is he supposed to take a

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. However, as Captain Cook seems to have investigated the subject very carefully, * it is not improbable that they think it expedient to punish their criminals in this manner, by devoting them as sacrifices to their God: nay, as we have already mentioned, that in more remote times canibalism was introduced among the Taheiteans, and the inhabitants of the Society Isles, it is highly probable that these human sacrifices, are the remains of the canibalism of these islanders; with this difference, that

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homogeneous to their divinities, or vice versa their divinities are according to their opinion analogous to man, and as they often told me the great Eato a could not be seen, or in other words was invisible, this analogy cannot lie in the body the only visible part of man, and must therefore consist in the part capable of thinking and reasoning, which in some measure is analogous to the scriptural phrase of the image of God, after which man was first made. Lastly, as they attribute to O-T A the first man

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, that the Eato a would be angry (w riddee) on that account against her; but she very coolly replied, that this might perhaps be the case of the Eato a no Pret nee i. e. the British God, but the Eato a of O-Raied a knew her to be with child by an Arreeoy, whose children must not live, and would therefore not be angry. From the above account however I think we have reason to conclude that they are not quite without some notions of a future state attended with rewards and punishments. Their religion

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the wooden vanes almost constantly moved by the least breath of wind; these pieces of wood were on the two opposite sides hollowed out like spoons of about seven or eight inches long and five wide, and covered on the hollow part with Tibetan characters. The lamas or priests of the khalmyks say that as often as the vane or this wooden instrument moves round, the substance of the prayers for the repose of the deceased, is as it were offered up to God. In the Arch ologia of the Society of Antiquaries

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A822.02 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 2. Text

to your father's family, and to your mother's memory! We girls followed my brother's example. God bless my daughters! God bless you, sweet loves, said my father; first kissing one, then the other, as we kneeled. God make you as good women as your mother: then, then, will you deserve to be happy. God bless you, my dear girls, God bless you both, said my mother, kissing each, as you are dutiful to your father, and as you love one another I hope I have given you no bad example. My father began to

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was my wish It was my pride: indeed, my chiefest pride, to be a good wife! O my dear! You have been My father could not say what. Forgive my imperfections, Sir! O my dearest life! You had no imperfection: I, I, was all imper He could not speak out the word for his tears. Bless your children in my sight: God hitherto has blessed them! God will continue to bless them, if they continue to deserve their father's blessing. Dear Sir Thomas, as you love them, bless them in my sight. I doubt not your

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mote your happiness; and your wishes shall be the leaders of mine. Then I am sure I shall live with my guardian and you for ever, as I may say: and God grant, and down on her knees she dropped, with her arms wrapped about mine, that you may be the happiest of women, and that soon, for my sake, as well as your own, in marriage with the best of men, my guardian! (exultingly, said she): and say, Amen Do, God bless you, madam, say Amen to my prayer. Istruggled from her. O my sweet girl! I cannot

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upon him to spare me to my friends, for their sake. I will forgive him for all he has done. Nay, dear lady, if Sir Hargrave will make you his lawful and true wife, there can be no harm done, surely. I will, I will, Mrs. Awberry, said he. I have promised, and I will perform. But if she stand in her own light She expects nothing from my morals If she stand in her own light; and looked fiercely God protect me! said I: God protect me! The gentleman is without, Sir, said the woman. O how my heart

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caution forsook me: I sprang by my aunt, and before the footstep could be put down, flew, as it were, out of the coach, and threw myself at her feet, wrapping my arms about her: Bless, bless, said I, your Harriet! I could not, at the moment, say another word. Great God! said the pious parent, her hands and eyes lifted up, Great God! I thank thee! Then folding her arms about my neck, she kissed my forehead, my cheek, my lips God bless my love! Pride of my life! the most precious of a hundred daughters

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, she came to her mother, and kneeled to her, her hands lifted up Forgive me, forgive your poor child, my mamma! God bless my child! Rise, my love! I do forgive yon! But do you forgive me, tears trickling down her cheeks, for ever suffering you to go out of my own sight? for delivering you into the management of less kind, and less indulgent relations? And God forgive them too, rising. Some of them made me crazy, and then upbraided me with being so. God forgive them! I do. She then came to me

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dear creature's reason in your power, and yet withhold it from her? Ah, my lord said I, how cruel! She raised her head; and, taking her mother's and Camilla's offered salts, smelt to them in turn I think I am a little better. Were you, chevalier, ever in such a strange way? I hope not God preserve all people from being as I have been! Why now you are all affected. Why do you all weep? What have I said? God forbid, that I should afflict any-body Ali! chevalier! and laid her hand upon my arm, God

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don't be too much terrified: God, we hope, God, we pray, will protect your brother! Mr. Greville cannot be capable of the shocking mischief, barbarity, villany, which it is apprehended he has in view: God will protect your brother! Here, a note was brought from an anonymous hand I don't know what I write from an unknown hand; signifying, that Mr. Greville was heard to threaten the life of your brother; and we are told, by more than one, that he is moody, and in a bad way as to his mind. And he

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Your niece has pleased you now, I hope, Mr. Selby, said my grandmamma. Prety well! pretty well! God grant that we meet with no put-offs! I hardly longed so much for my own day with my dame Selby there, as I have done, and do, to see my Harriet Lady Grandison God, God, bless you, my dearest love! and kissed my cheek You have been very, very good in the main And, but for dame Selby, would have been better, as far as I know. You don't do me justice, my dear, replied my aunt. Don't I! Nor did I

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objection? Need there any other? But I can clear myself. To God, and to your conscience, then do it, Sir. I want you not to clear yourself to me. But, madam, the clearing myself to you, would be clearing myself to God, and my conscience. What language is this, Sir? But you can be nothing to me: indeed you can be nothing to me Rise, Sir; rise or I leave you. I made an effort to go. He caught my hand; [page] 16

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We are gathered together here in the sight of God, read he on. This affected me still more. I adjure you, Sir, to the minister, by that God in whose sight you read we are gathered together, that you proceed no further. I adjure you, Sir Hargrave, in the same tremendous name, that you stop further proceedings. My life take: with all my heart, take my life: but my hand never, never, will I join with yours. Proceed, doctor: doctor, pray proceed, said the vile Sir Hargrave. When the day dawns, she

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not for what, but sympathetically, as I may say; she supposing, that all was not as she would have it. She came up soon after to me One word, my dearest madam (the door in her hand, and her head only within it:) Tell me only that there is no misunderstanding between my guardian and you! Tell we only that None, My dear! None at all, my Emily! Thank God! clasping her hands together; thank God! If there were, I should not have known whose part to take! But I won't disturb you And was going. Stay

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Would you have her to be no more, my love? said her mother. O no! no! I would have had her to live, and to repent. Was she not the companion of my childhood? She loved me once. I always loved her. Say, chevalier, is she living? I looked at the marchioness, as asking, if I should tell her she was; and receiving her approving nod, She is living, madam, answered I and I hope will repent. Is she, is she indeed, my mamma? interrupted she. She is, my dear. Thank God ! rising from her seat, clasping

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of Old England for a wife. She was mightily pleased too with Mrs. Shirley's letter. It was just such a one as she herself would have written upon the occasion. I posted afterwards to Mrs. Reeves, to shew her, as you requested, your letter: and when we had read it, there was, Dear Madam, and, Dear Sir! and now this, and now that, and thank God three times in a breath; and we were cousins, and cousins, and cousins: and, O blessed! and, O be joyful: and, Hail the day! And, God grant it to be a

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grateful ought I to be to my deliverer! Ever-amiable goodness! resumed he, How have I been, how am I, how shall I be, rewarded? With tender awe he kissed my cheek Forgive me, angel of a woman! A man can shew his love but as a man. Your heart is the heart I wish it to be! Love, humanity, graciousness, benevolence, forgivingness, all the amiable qualities which can adorn the female mind, are in perfection, yours! Be your sister-excellence happy! God grant it! and I shall be the happiest man in the

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can you, bid me welcome? Me, a fugitive, an ingrate, undutiful! O chevalier, lower not your unsullied character, by approving so unnatural a step as that which I have taken! I do bid you welcome, madam! Your brother, your friend, from his soul, welcomes you to England. Let me know, chevalier, before another word passes, whether I have a father, whether I have a mother? Blessed be God, madam, you have both. She lifted up her clasped hands: Thank God! God, I thank thee! Distraction would have

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fly to it. I am unhappy. O my fluctuating heart! When, when, shall I be settled? What, madam, can I say? answered Sir Charles: What can I advise? You say your are not happy. You think your parents are not so. We all believe you can make them so. But God forbid it should be to your own unhappiness, who have already been so great a sufferer, though hardly a greater than every one of your friends has been from your sufferings. I plead not, madam, the cause of any one man. I have told you. that your

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tears and they look at us, when they attend us, with such inquisitive, yet silent grief! We are speechless before them; and tell them our wills by motions, and not by words. Good God! After so many happy years! Happy in ourselves! to be at last in so short a time made the most miserable of wretches! But this had not been, if But no more Good God of heaven, what will become of poor Mrs. Shirley! Lucy, Nancy, will go distracted But no more Hasten your next And forgive this distracted letter. I

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ance, if I make a proper use of it, of soul as well as body. Which God grant, as also your honour's health and prosperity, to the prayers of Your honour's ever-devoted Humble servant, WILLIAM WILSON. I thought I had something else to say: something it is of high importance: your life is threatened, Sir: God preserve your precious life. Amen! LETTER XXXVI. MISS BYRON TO MISS SELBY. Friday, February 24. My cousin Reeves has given assurance to the sister of that Wilson, that he may, unmolested by

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favour, that you have quite forgiven your dutiful ward. I presume not to add another word But I dare say, dear Miss Byron, that now is, will not be against it, if you are not. God bless you, my honoured good Sir But God, I hope, I am sure will bless you; and so shall I, as surely I ought, whether you grant this favour, or not, to Your ever-obliged, and grateful EMILY JERVOIS. LETTER XLIX. SIR CHARLES GRANDISON TO MISS JERVOIS. Sunday, November 12. IT would give me great pain to deny to my good Miss

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I don't know that she is, answered I. But Lucy will never think of a man, be his qualifications ever so great, if he cannot give her proofs of loving her above all women. I understand you, madam Well, well, and I should be nice too, I can tell you, for my boy. But I'll sound him. I must have him married before I die, if possible. But no more of that for the present. And now, God Almighty bless, preserve, and keep you both! I will pray for the continuance of your happiness. He saluted me: wrung

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o be weary of us, as Sir Charles and I tell them: but they call us both unreasonable. God give us good news from Italy! LETTER XVI. LADY GRANDISON TO LADIES L. AND G. Grandison-hall, Tuesday, February 13. I WRITE to my dearest sisters now. Nor will I ask you to send my letters to my grandmamma for the present. Lucy shall he left to entertain my Northamptonshire friends. The enclosed translation of a letter written by Signor Jeronymo, will give you the surprising news Surprising indeed Poor

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once, after you left it, I saw him: and I always wished him happy. Now, my dearest sister, said Sir Charles, my ever-to-be-respected friend, I am easy in my mind. I could not bear in my thoughts, that any-thing I knew, which it concerned you to know, should be concealed from you. Tears stood in her eyes. O madam, said she to me, God and you only can reward this excellent man for his goodness to me, and all the world that know him. You see your influence, chevalier. In every way do I wish to

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God give her happiness! prays with her whole heart, your HARRIET GRANDISON. LETTER LI. LADY GRANDISON TO MRS. SHIRLEY. Thursday, May 17. LADY CLEMENTINA is thoughtful, solemn, and shuns company. Not one word will any-body say to her of the Count of Belvedere: but as he is expected here every-day to take his leave, Sir Charles thinks she ought not to be surprised by his coming at unawares. She neither dined or supped in company yesterday; nor breakfasted with us this morning. She loves, as you

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of rewarding them, for all their tender and indulgent goodness to her? It cannot be. God Almighty perfect his own work, so happily begun, in the full restoration of your health! This blessing, I have no doubt, will attend your filial obedience. But can you, my dear correspondent, expect it, if you make yourself uneasy, and keep your mind in suspense, as to your duty, and indulge yourself in supposing, that the will of God, and the will of your parents, are opposite? A great deal now depends upon

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cannot be in earnest, but by bating both. God help me! I cannot, now, if I would, give him a bad example! He need not be afraid of my staggering him in his good purpopes. One favour, for God's sake, procure for me It is, that the man whose life once I sought, and thought myself justified by the provocation; who afterwards saved mine, for a time saved it, reserved as I was for pains, for sufferings, in mind and body, worse than death That this man will be the executor of my last will. I have

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I am told, she is one of the loveliest women in England: and as to her goodness there is nobody so good. Thank God! You know, chevalier, I always prayed, that the best of women might be called by your name. But Olivia, it seems, praises her; and Olivia saw her when she was a rambler to England, as God help me! I am now. But Olivia's motive and mine were very different. Olivia went to England in hopes of a husband Poor woman! I pity her. But, chevalier, cannot I see your lady, and she not see

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quarter of an hour's discourse with me in my chamber. I gave direction, that nobody should come to me till I rang, She entered; made me sit; took her seat by me; and immediately, with a noble frankness in her manner, thus began: I could not, my dear Lady Grandison, ask the favour of your ear on the subject I wanted to open my heart upon to you, till I saw you were perfectly recovered. God be praised, that you are! What anxieties did your late indisposition give me! I accused myself as the

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ladies; and yet we have charming girls in Caermarthen! Am I, or am I not right, Mr. Reeves, as to my nephew's flame, as they call it? The lady you describe, Sir Rowland, is Miss Byron. And then Mr. Reeves, in his usual partial manner, let his heart overflow at his lips in my favour. Thank God, thank God! said the knight. Let us return. Let us go in again. I will say something to her to make her speak: but not a word to dash her. I expect her voice to be music, if it be as harmonious as the rest

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repeat, that I am under obligation to him for the value he has for me: I shall be under more, if he will accept of my thanks as all I have to return. My dear Miss Byron, said Mr. Reeves, oblige Sir Rowland so far, as to take a little time to consider God bless you on earth and in heaven, Mr. Reeves, for this! You are a good man Why, ay, take a little time to eonsider God bless you, madam, take a little time. Say you will consider. You know not what a man of understanding my nephew is. Why

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Not one word of comfort? not one word, madam? to my boy? whispered he. My compliments (speaking low) to my brother, Sir. I wish him as well and as happy as I think he deserves to be. Well but Well but Only remember, Sir Rowland, that you act in character. I followed you hither, on the strength of your authority, as a father; I beg, Sir, that you will preserve to me that character. Why God in heaven bless my daughter, if only daughter you can be. Too well do I understand you! I will see how my

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suffering angel. Where the road parts we shall divide, and enquire at every turnpike; and shall agree upon our places of meeting. I am harassed to death: but my mind is the greatest sufferer. O my dear Mr. Selby! We have tidings God be praised, we have tidings Not so happy indeed as were to be wished: yet the dear creature is living, and in honourable hands God be praised! Read the inclosed letter directed to me. SIR, Miss Byron is in safe and honourable hands. The first moment she could give any

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(most happily met!) our distressed cousin. Sir Hargrave is the villain! I am heartily sorry for suspecting Mr. Greville. Sir Charles had earnest business in town; and he proceeded thither, after he had rescued the dear creature, and committed her to the care of his sister. God for ever bless him! The vile Sir Hargrave, as the servant understood, was wounded. Sir Charles, it seems, was also hurt. Thank God it was so slightly, as not to hinder him from pursuing his journey to town after the

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I do promise I shall rejoice to see him. Miss Grandison called to me. I approached; and catching my cousin's held-out hand Thank God, thank God, best beloved of a hundred hearts! said I, that once more I behold you! that once more I see you in safe and honourable hands! I will not tell you what we have all suffered. No, don't, said she You need not But, O my cousin! I have fallen into the company of angels. Forbear, gently patting her hand, forbear these high flights, said the kind lady, or I

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could not but enquire into the nature of the hurt he had received. A very trifle! My coat only was hurt, Mr. Reeves. The skin of my left shoulder raked a little, putting his hand upon it. Thank God, said I: Thank God, said Miss Grandison But so near! O the villain! what might it have been! Sir Hargrave pent up in a chariot, had great disadvantage. My reflections on the event of yesterday, yield me the more pleasure, as I have, on enquiry, understood that he will do well again, if he will be

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failed in here, shall be done elsewhere. By the great God of heaven, it shall. I wept. I could not then speak. Can't you go into fits again? Can't you? said the barbarian; with an air of a piece with his words; and using other words of the lowest reproach. God deliver me, prayed I to myself, from the hands of this madman! I arose, and as the candle stood near the glass, I saw in it my vile figure, in this abominable habit, to which, till then, I had paid little attention. O how I scorned myself

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into the back parlour Thank God! thank God! said I My gratitude was too strong for my heart: I thought I should have fainted. Do you wonder, Lucy, at my being so much affected, when I had been in such a dreadful suspense, and had formed such terrible ideas of the danger of one of the best of men, all owing to his serving and saving me? Surprises from joy, I fancy, and where gratitude is the principal spring, are sooner recovered from than surprises which raise the more stormy passions. Mrs

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fears him; and now-and-then tells her, that he would give the world, if he had it, to be able to be just what Sir Charles is! Good God! at other times he has broke out, what an odious creature is a rake! How I hate myself, when I contemplate the excellencies of this divine brother of yours! I shall say nothing of Sir Charles in this place. You, I know, my Lucy, will admire me for my forbearance. Lady L. and Miss Grandison were the graces of the table. So lively, so sensible, so frank, so

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each, and with my grandmamma. All the worthies in the world, my dear, are not in the Grandison-family. Before I resume the continuation of the ladies' family-history, let me ask; don't you think, my dear, that God has blessed these happy children, for the sake of their excellent mother? And who knows but for their duty to their less deserving father? It is my notion, that one person's remissness in duty, where there is a reciprocal one, does not absolve the other party from the performance of

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my good Lady Grandison, how might your choice have punished your children. I pray to God, Sir Thomas, said my lord, bowing, but angry; I pray to God, to continue me in a different way of thinking from yours, if this be yours. Give me leave to say, you are too young a gentleman to be a father of grown-up children. But I must love Miss Grandison; and still, if possible, poor young lady! more than ever, for what has passed in this conversation. And saying this, he withdrew. Sir Thomas was very

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, let us have your free opinion. Dr. B. Miss Byron (I pronounce upon knowledge, for she has more than once, since I have been down, done me the honour of entering into very free and serious conversations with me) is one of the most excellent of women. And then he went on, praising me for ingenuousness, seriousness, cheerfulness, and for other good qualities, which his partiality found out in me: and added. Would to heaven that she were neither more nor less than Lady Grandison! God bless him