...all the ills of life ; nor did I ever know any chagrin which an hour's readmg could not diffipate. I awaken in the morning with a fecret joy at feeing...extacy ; and during the reft of the day I am happy. I pafs the night without awaking, and am aflecp the moment I lay down my head. i am almoft as well fatisfied...

...undeceived, to be inftantaneoufly cured of my paffion. Literature is with me a never failing remedy for all the ills of life ; nor did I ever know what...; I regard the light with a feeling approaching to ecftacy ; and, daring the reft of the day, I am happy. I pafs the night without awaking, and am afleep...

...years, in which he did not think, with MONTESQUIEU, " Literature is with me a never-failing remedy for all the ills of life, nor did I ever know what that sorrow was which an hour's reading could not dissipate." A single exception to this general rule may...