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prife thereof, ought to be preferved without 
fcandal and corruption." 
To find a man of Bacon's fuperior abili- 
ties aft, whether from indifference or from 
attention to other objects, diametrically op- 
pofite to his own principles, is rather a 
painful difcovery: fuch examples however 
are not without their utility. They teach 
us that the good faculties of the brain, 
without the good faculties of the heart, are 
totally infufficient to form an eftimable 
character, Confcious integrity of conduct, 
would have afforded Bacon more real felicity 
than all his wealth, his power and philofo-.- 
phical immortality. 
I am, 6cq. 
LET- 
