190 liENllY KIPcKE white's EEMAINS. 



very much ; I have read the orlo^iual La Bruyere ; I 

 ttiink him like Kochefoucault. Madame de Genlis is a 

 very able woman. 



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But I must now attempt to excuse my neglect in not 

 writing to you. First, I have been very busy with these 

 essays and poems for the INIoiithly Preceptor. Second 

 I was rather angry at your last letter — I can bear any- 

 thing but a sneer, and it was one continued grin from 

 beginning to end, as were all the notices you made of me 

 in my mother's letters, and I cjuld not, nor can I now, 

 brook it. I could say much more, but it is very late, and 

 must beg leave to wish you good night. 

 1 am, dear Brother, 



Your affectionate Friend, 



H. K. White. 



P.S. — You may expect a regular correspondence from 

 me in future, but no sneers ; and shall be very obliged 

 by a long letter. 



TO HIS BROTHER NEVILLE. 



Nottiugliam, 25th June 1£00. 

 Dear Neville, 



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You are inclined to flatter me when you compare my 

 application with yours ; in truth, I am not half so assi- 

 duous as you, and I amconscious I waste a deal of time 

 unwittingly. But, in reading, I am upon the continual 

 search for improvement : I thirst after knowledge, and 

 though my disposition is naturally idle, I conquer it when 

 reading a useful book. The plan which I pursued, in 

 order to subdue my disinclination to dry books, was this, 

 to begin attentively to peruse it, and continue thus one 

 hour every day : the book insensibly, by this means, 

 becomes pleasing to you ; and even when reading Bhtck- 

 stone's Commentaries, which are very dry, I lay down 

 j the book with regret. 



