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friendfhip, for an anfwer feafonably fuggefted, for 

 an apology made in behalf of one abfent by his 

 comrades, and other little fervices rendered and 

 repaid. The recolledion of thofe early intimacies 

 will farther unite them in the World, notwith- 

 flanding the prejudices of their various conditions. 



At this tender age it is that gratitude and refent- 

 ment become engraved, for the reft of life, as in- 

 delibly as the elements of Science and of Religion. 

 It is not fo in our colleges, where every fcholar 

 attempts to fupplant his neighbour. I recoiled: 

 that one exercife day, I found myfelf very much 

 embarrafled, from having forgotten a Latin Au- 

 thor, out of which I had a page to tranflate. One 

 of my neighbours obligingly offered to diftate to 

 me the verfion which he had made from it. 1 ac- 

 cepted his fervices, with many expreffions of ac- 

 knowledgment. I accordingly copied his verfion, 

 only changing a few words, that the Regent might 

 not perceive it to be the fame with my compa- 

 nion's; but that which he had given me was only 

 a falfe copy of his own, and was filled with blun- 

 ders fo extravagant, that the Regent was aftonifhed 

 at it, and could not believe it, at firft, to be my 

 production, for 1 was a tolerably good fcholar. I 

 have not loft the recolleclion of that aâ: of perfidy, 

 though, in truth, I have forgotten others much 

 more cruel which I have encountered fince that pe- 

 riod ; 



