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acknowledgments are rendered unnecessary
by the privileges of a familiar correspondence;
and I am satisfied I can no
way better oblige men of their turn than
by my silence.
In short, I have found more patrons than
ever Homer wanted. He would have
thought himself happy to have met the
same favour at Athens that has been
shown me by its learned rival, the
University of Oxford. And I can hardly
envy him those pompous honours he received
after death, when I reflect on the
enjoyment of so many agreeable obligations,
and easy friendships, which make
the satisfaction of life. This distinction
is the more to be acknowledged, as it is
shown to one whose pen has never gratified
the prejudices of particular parties,
or the vanities of particular men.
Whatever the success may prove, I shall
never repent of an undertaking in which I