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in Europe have not raised their expectations too high, 

 they will not, I believe, be disappointed : my own 

 imperfect essays I always except ; but, though my 

 other engagements have prevented my attendance 

 on your society for the greatest part of last year, and I 

 have set an example of that freedom from restraint, 

 without which no society can flourish j yet, as my 

 few hours of leisure will now be devoted to Sanscrit 

 literature, I cannot but hope, though my chief object 

 be a knowledge of Hindu law, to make some disco- 

 very in other sciences, which I shall impart with hu- 

 mility, and which you will, I doubt not, receive with 

 indulgence. 



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