DISORDERED EYES, * 599 



Iiand kerchief. As I had been accuftomed to the for- 

 mer kind of handkerchiefs, I had fame i en t experience 

 of -the hurtful effects of ruing them, though I cannot 

 pretend exactly to aflign the reafon of it. 



I alfo, with M. Campe, am very ready to confefs, 

 that I am under infinite obligations, in refpedt both to 

 body and mind, to my difrempered eyes. They forced 

 .me to attend, with unremitted diligence to my diet ; 

 by which I now enjoy a confirmed irate of health, who 

 fix years ago was nothing but a creeping fkeleton. They 

 have made me fo familiar with pains both of body and 

 mind, that none of either fpecies can henceforth be 

 infupportablc to me, They have alfo taught me, by 

 fad experience, in regard to the rage for ftudy, that 

 the race is not to the fwift. 



I have been purpofely thus prolix, partly for inducing 

 the Auctions to have fome pity on their eyes, and to 

 forbear to ufe them in fuch a manner as if they could 

 buy a pair of new ones at any fair, when thofe they 

 have at prefent are worn out, and partly for the benefit 

 of thofe who find memfelves in fome refpeels or alto- 

 gether in the fame fituatloh with M. Campe and myfelf. 



It would be a great fatlsfacYion to me to hear that 

 this gentleman finds advantage either from my fereen 

 on going abroad into company, or from mv ivory 

 counters in travelling. The former I have only feen 

 in two places, the crher no where. 



GOEKIN£. 



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