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preface. 
These are a few of tire rudiments of our sig¬ 
nificant language. We call upon Friendship and 
Love to unite their discoveries with ours; for it 
is in the power only of these sweetest sentiments 
of our nature to bring to perfection what they 
have so beautifully invented, the mystical, yet 
pleasing, links of intelligence, that bind soul to 
soul, in the tender and quiet harmony of the one, 
or in the more impassioned felicity of the other. 
By way of conclusion, it may be proper to re¬ 
mark that though this work is founded on a small 
French volume, yet, from the alterations which 
have been introduced, it cannot, strictly speaking, 
be called a translation. 
