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Jast question, it is merely to have the utility of 

 clipping twice a-year more fully explained. 



Indeed I make no doubt but it will be greatly to 

 Mr Sherif 's advantage to have tl;e whole of this mat- 

 ter more fully explained. For my part, I (hall candid- 

 ly confefs, that although I have been at a very consi- 

 derable expence in hiring tups, both from Leicester^ 

 fhire and other counties, I suppose myself far fhort of 

 Mr Sherif 's perfection, particularly in wool, and fhall 

 this year, instead of going to Leicesterfhire as I inten- 

 ded, do myself the pleasure of paying Mr Sherif a 

 visit at Captainhead, fliould his answers to the above 

 prove satisfactory, as I make no doubt they will. 



j4r.crcfi , near Bei-mick upon'Tiuced , -^r T -nt 



Feb. 1792: Yours, John Nisbet. 



REFLECTJONS OF FREDERICK THE QREAT. 

 Continued from p. 328, vol. ii. 



You will laugh at the trouble I have taken to 

 infuse into a people, whose knowledge hitherto has 

 chiefly consisted in eating, drinking, making love, ajid 

 •fighting, ideas of good taste and Attic salt. Still I 

 have a wish to be useful ; and a grain thrown into 

 fertile land often sprouts, and becomes unexpectedly 

 fruitful." Letter CCI. 



" I was as much afflicted as I was enraged, at the 

 •incredible phren'/.y and folly of Monsieur de Mari- 

 vaux, the author of the Systeme de la Nature ; who, 

 far from depicting priests, as they really are, the sole, 

 •or at least the most formidable enemies of princes, 

 has represented them on the contrary as the support 

 ■.•;id allies of royalty." 



Fiom d' Alimbert to ilje king, Letter CCXXXIV, 



