THE EDITOR’S PREFACE. 
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literary attainments, of a generous and 
confiding disposition, and of the gentlest 
heart that ever throbbed in a human 
bosom in sympathy with another’s dis¬ 
tress, or that ever panted fervently to 
relieve it. He is a man of unlimited capa¬ 
bilities of kindliness, loving his neigh¬ 
bour more than himself, and the ladies 
most of all. Indeed, as regards the fair, 
he seems to have concentrated all the 
sex into one magnificent idea, a resplen¬ 
dent idol, to which he has ever bent 
knee, and which he has ever worshipped. 
It is to this generalization of attach¬ 
ment, and infinity of adoration, that I 
impute that he is now a hale and gal- 
