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grity, it must be acknowledged, nevertheless, that 
Sir James was indebted greatly to an education 
among those who placed the standard of virtue upon 
higher ground than usual; who considered errors 
which too frequently, through false indulgence, 
through indolence, through extreme folly, are over- 
looked as pardonable or inevitable because they 
are common, as evils to be carefully avoided, be- 
cause they surely lead to misery. 
The high principle of rectitude which appears in 
the next letter, from his relative of the same age, is 
worthy of record and imitation, and confers honour 
on both parties. 
N. E. Kindersley, Esq. to Mr. J. E. Smith. 
My dearest Friend, Tinnevelley, 19th June. 
I had the pleasure to write to youa few days ago, 
but now resume my pen to attempt to express the 
uncommon satisfaction I received two days ago in 
reading a letter from you. 
It gave me a more than usual pleasure, not only 
to see the very great confidence you repose in me, 
but more especially as I am now assured you are 
not one of those innumerable multitudes of young 
men who are insensible to religion and virtue; so 
much greater in number (beyond all comparison) 
than the good, that you will not, I hope, condemn 
me as uncharitable, when I thought it highly pro- 
bable even you were one of them. I congratulate 
you on your happiness with the greatest pleasure, 
and thank Providence that the person who had the 
