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Excerpt from The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mrs. Delany, Vol. 2 of 2 You have, my Lord, been running in debt almost from your cradle, but more remarkably for seven or eight years last past, and at the same time that you have been con tracting these debts, you have been promising every day, by everything serious and sacred, to discharge them to the full with ample interest. You will naturally ask what these debts are? I answer, the debts of well-grounded, solid hopes and righteous expectations, the debts of all others most properly deemed debts of honour debts the most honourable to contract and most glorious to dis charge, and consequently the most reproachful to leave unpaid. N 0, my Lord, you will leave none of them unpaid, we will judge of the future by the past, and rest there. Your Lordship long since promised Westminster a good scholar for Oxford you have given her the very best she glories to have sent thither since I know not when. You promised her a young nobleman of great hopes, built upon their only solid basis temperance, diligence, humility, modesty, piety: she confesses the debt to be fully dis charged. What then is there undischarged Oh, my Lord, a great deal. You have now promised the University all you before promised to Westminster, and much more, and Westminster herself has passed her word for you, and is bound for the performance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally le