Elegant Epistles, Or, a Copious Collection of Familiar and Amusing Letters

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1790 edition. Excerpt: ...make bold with you, where it is without ne! glect of you, or prejudice to either. I was ot a llttie joiced you sent me, n the first 0s your letters, of your safe recovery of a fever. Had I known it, before the danger was Over that you had been ill, it would ha" been mnftmaJfnght andPtome;sorI, U1ll amongit au the friends your kindness or worts, has procured you, there is not any one who vaues you more than I do, or does more interest himself in all y0ar concernst rhis makes me, that though I have a long time extremely desired to see you, and propose to myself an infinite satisfaction in a free conversation with you; yet what you tell me, that you were coming last summer mto England to make me! visit, makes me dread the satisfaction of my own wiftes. And methinks I ouEht not to purchase one of the greatest happinesses I can propose to myself at so dear and dangerous a rate. I have received many and great obligations from you before, but they were such as, though I had no title to, I thought I might accept from one whom I love, and therefore was glad to find kind to me. But when I reflect on the longth of the way, and the sea between us, the danger of'the one! and the fatigue of both, and your no J"' constitution, as I imagine, I cannot consent you should venture so much for my sake. If any barm &ou, d happen to you m the journey, I could never forgive it mysels/to b/tbe occa mynself FT't J? the WOrId myself. And if you ftould co s f the greatness of the hazard, and ob i-' ITJ f al Pinion to either ought to receive, or was capable to C c 3' return, return, would overwhelm me with Ihame, and hinder my enjoyment. And yet, if I may confess my secret thoughts, there is not any thing which I would not give that some...