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and interesting letter of the 25th of June, that you 

 still possess yourself in undisturbed tranquillity ; 

 not like a reed that has bent before the storm, but 

 like a palm-tree, around whose polished and up- 

 right stem the winds have whistled, without ruf- 

 fling the lofty honours of its head ! Such a plant 

 can no more be nursed in St. Stephen's chapel, 

 than the Norfolk Island pine, 250 feet high, in 

 any of our stoves. You are now in your proper 

 element, and very long may you continue so ! The 

 world is not worthy of you, " nor the world's law." 

 The line of conduct you have pursued secures you 

 from regret, and I trust you will soon look back 

 on all that is past with no less satisfaction, on every 

 account, than self-approbation. I wished it rather 

 for your triumph than your happiness ; and really 

 triumphs of any kind are worth but little : — " One 

 self-approving hour," &c. — you know the rest, 

 and that a good man has, independent of tri- 

 umphs founded on the accidental justice of the 

 world. 



Believe me ever, my dear Sir, 

 Most affectionately, 



Your faithful Friend and Servant, 



J. E. Smith. 



Sir J. E. Smith to Mr. Roscoe. 



My dear Friend, Norwich, Nov. 2, 1807. 



What a long while I have been without acknow- 

 ledging your kind and very interesting letter of 



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