236 HENRY KIRKE WHITE S REAFAINS. 



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my most favourite divines ; and a complete set of his ser- 

 mons really " sets me up." I hope I am able to appreciate 

 the merits of sirch a collection, and I shall always value 

 them apart from their merit, as a memento of friendship. 



I hope that, when our correspondence begins, it will 

 neither be lax nor uninteresting ; and that, on both sides, 

 it may be productive of something more than mere 

 amusement. 



While we each strive to become wiser in those things 

 wherein true wisdom is alone to be found, we may 

 mutually contribute to each other's success, by the com- 

 munication of our thoughts : and that we may both be- 

 come proficients in that amiable philosophy which malces 

 us happier by rendering us better ; that philosophy which 

 alone makes us wise unto salvation, is the prayer of, 

 Dear Kirke, 

 Your sincere friend, 



Hknry Kikke Wuite. 



TO MR JOHN CHARLESWORTH. 



"VVinteringham 1804. 



*Amice Dilecte, 



Puderet me infrequentice nostrarum literarum, nisi 

 hoc ex te pendere sentirem. Epistolas a te missas non 

 prius accepi quara kalendis Decembris — res mihi acerba, 

 nihilominus ad ferendum levior, dum me non tibi ex 

 animo prorsus excidisse satis exploratum est, 



Gasivus sum, e litteris tuis amico Roberto dicatis, cum 

 audirem te operam et dedisse et daturum ad Graecara 

 linguam etiamnum excolendam cum viro omni doctrina 

 erudito. — Satis scio te, illo duce, virum doctissiraura et 

 in optimarum artium studiis exquisitissimum futurura 

 esse : baud tamen his facultatibus contentura, sed altiora 

 petentem, nempe salutem humani generis et sancta verbi 

 divini arcana. 



* This letter is not to be considered as a specimen of Henry's Latin- 

 ity. It was written when he was only beginning those classical studies 

 in which he afterwards made such progress. 



