234 HENRY KIKKE WHITE's REMAINS. 



at least, two quiet contented bodies. These will be our 

 relaxations ; our business will be of a nobler kind. Let 

 us vigilantly fortify ourselves against the exigencies of 

 the serious appointment we are, with God's blessing, to 

 fulfil ; and if we go into the Church prepared to do our 

 duty, there is every reasonable prospect that our labours 

 will be blessed, and that we shall be blessed in them. 

 As your habits generally have been averse to what is 

 called close application, it will be too much for your 

 strength, as well as unadvisable in other points of view, 

 to study very intensely ; but regularly you may, and 

 must read ; and depend upon it, a man will work more 

 wonders by stated and constant application, than by un- 

 natural and forced endeavours. 



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TO MR B. ?.I.ADDOCK, 



Nottingliam, September 1804. 

 My dear Ben, 



By the time you will open this letter, we shall have 

 parted, God only knows whether ever to meet again. 

 The chances and casualties of human life are such as to 

 render it always questionable whether three months may 

 not separate us for ever from an absent friend. 



For my part, I shall feel a vacuum when you are gone, 

 which will not easily be filled up. I shall miss my only 

 intimate friend — the companion of my walks — the in- 

 terrupter of my evening studies. I shall return, in a 

 great measure, to my old solitary habits. I cannot as- 

 sociate with , nor yet with ; has no place 



in my aifections, though he has in my esteem. It was 

 to you alone I looked as my adopted brother, and (al- 

 though for reasons you may hereafter learn, I have not 

 made you my perfect confidant) my comforter. — Heu 

 mihi Amice Vale, longum Yale ! I hope you will some- 

 times think of me, and give me a portion in your prayers, 

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