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Excerpt from A Letter Missive From Sir Philip Francis, K. B., To Lord Holland
I see you are at a loss for the tendency of so much preface. What relation lzas it to the title and subject of your Letter? My answer is, that similarity is not included in connexion. Without a'visible resemblance, cause and effect are strictly related and be long to one another. An exorbitant price and a real scarcity in one year may be traced back to a ruinous abundance and cheapness in the preceding. We know, or We shall soon know it by experience, that the pro position, so stated and understood, does not involve a contradiction. To understand me, you must listen for a moment to the history of my mind for some years past; a branch of knowledge, which, I believe, Lord Baa con, if he had thought of it, would not have omitted among the deslclerata in science. Time has not yet made me garru lous, whatever it may do hereafter. My recital'conccrning myself shall be. In?icted on you, as if it were an operation, with compassion for the patient; with the brevity of impatience and the-rapidity of youth.
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