Blair Collection > Celtic researches, on the origin, traditions & language, of the ancient Britons

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tlie anal3^sis of those waters ; but I ne\'cr shall
cease to admh'C his talents, to venerate his
learning, — or to esteem and love the unde-
viating integrit}^ of his principles, and of
his life.
The Societif for Literary Pmids, can receive
no additional credit from o?ie of the numerous
individuals whom they have cherished and
sustained in adversities, like those Λνίπϋΐι have
depressed me ; but the delicacy, as Λνεΐΐ as
the munificence of their conduct by me, de-
mands of me, as a debt of honour, which I
cannot Avithhold, that I should mark to the
ΛVorld so beneficent a system of liberality as
theirs. I have received, as an encourage-
ment of this ΛVork, and of the Λvriter, two
successive donations from them, in actual
payments, conferred upon me by the unani-
mous vote of their conmiittccs, and recom-
mended by the most obliging curtesy of man-
ners, in their Secretary's letters to me.^ —
Wherever that society is knoΛvn, and where
its good ofiices have been felt, in blessings