PREFACE. 
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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 
remark 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. 
