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I am aft-aid a ftyle of life and manners has become in fome de- Account of lorf 

 gree fafliionable, which deftroys this honourable diftindion ; """"^ ^' 

 which degrades the higher ranks by vices and folUes that ufed 

 to be a reproach to the leaft worthy among the lower ; in which 

 name and ftation fandify grofTnefs in pleafure and coarfnefs^in 

 demeanour, and wealth flioots out into caprice and abfurdity, 

 inflead of expanding into generofity and ufefulnefs. 



The Society will pardon this digreffion, which I confefs to 

 be unneceflary, and to fome may appear ungracious ; they will 

 forgive it to him who, looking from the tomb of his friend on 

 the world he has left, with that gentler mifanthropy (if it fhall 

 be thought to merit that term) which is made up rather of re- 

 grets than of refentments, naturally enough indulges in an ag- 

 gravation of what he has loft, and, it may be, in an unfavour- 

 able eftlmate of what remains for him to enjoy. 



Independently, however, of the eftimation of friendfliip, it 

 may certainly be affirmed, that in the death of Lord Aber- 

 CROMBY fociety has fuftained a lofs of no light nor common 

 kind ; a lofs which his friends and acquaintance will long and 

 deeply lament ; and which, without difparagement to the vir- 

 tues or the abilities of his furvivers, will not be eafily repaired 

 to the public. 



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