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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1787. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Sir John Amington to Miss Warren. SEVEN months and a half have now passed away since you banislied me your sight. I respect the caprice which ordained it, for the cause of that caprice, though it was prejudice, was respectable. But never--never did your judgment err so widely, as when you supposed a year of absence would.eradicate the impressions you have made. Trust me, my dear Miss Warren, they were no common impressions; and only when I cease to think, I shall oease to think cf you. In the awful circumstances in which I first saw you, you appeared an angelic being, sufsering for innocence. What fortitude, what piety and resignation sweetly beamed upon your countenance! These, with the quiet stillness of your soul in prison, and the sweet, the sensible, and more than moral philosophy that issued from your lips, are ever present to my imagination, or my memory. Could I even forget these, would it be possible to forget get the health-administering angel, that slew, regardless of the maxims (he now worships with such false idolatry, to snatch me from the grave? Fatally snatched! should she still persevere to load the lise she gave with insupportable heaviness. I mean not however to complain, but to petition; and I assure you with absolute certainty, the grant of my request is the only means by which you can hope to obtain the end for which you dismissed me your presence. Repeal then my banishment. Call me into the circle of your English Belles-----I consent to give up your beauteous self, whenever you can shew me your equal. Too well, to hazard it, do I know the value of the prize I contend for. No--your will shall have free scope--no doubts /hall be left to cloud your mind hereafter. To see you no more for a year, was indeed bard; but the hopes of seeing you the...
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