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tions been torn asunder when just most fully deve- 
loped! I shall hardly ever dare to fix, for fear of a 
disappointment.” 
This is the language, and such are the feelings of 
ingenuous youth: but such a heart, whatever re- 
solves the head might make, must seek its happiness 
in new affections, and his were not long condemned 
to solitude, or withered by despair. 
The following letter, written the next year to his 
earliest friend and near relation, (of whose connec- 
tion with him he was always justly proud, and whose 
friendship lasted unimpaired through all the vicis- 
situdes of absence, habits, and a different clime,) 
may give a lively idea of that ardent temperament 
which has just been described, 
Mr. J. E.. Smith to N. E. Kindersley, Esq.* 
Tinnevelley, 1784. 
Why, dearest friend, do you think Iam changed ? 
How can you blaspheme the name of reason, so as 
* Author of the following work : 
“« Specimens of Hindoo Literature, consisting of Translations 
from the Tamoul Language of some Hindoo Works of Morality 
and Imagination ; with explanatory Notes, to which are prefixed 
introductory Remarks on the Mythology, Literature, §c. of the 
Hindoos. By N.E. Kindersley, Esq., of the Hon. East India 
Company’s civil service on the Madras establishment: 1794. 
8vo. 335 pages.—This work, by a most worthy and esteemed 
relation, is very curious, and appears to be extremely well exe- 
cuted. It will gratify the inquirers into the Hindoo religion, 
and the manners, ideas and literature of that ancient extraordi- 
nary people. It is a beautiful edition, and has five curious 
plates, which are not mentioned in the title-page.’—Mr. S'mith’s 
common-place book. 
