THE

MISCELLANEOUS WORKS

OF

OLIVER GOLDSMITH.

VOLUME FIFTH.

CONTAINING VOLUME. SECOND OF THE

CITIZEN OF THE WORLD.

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THE

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LETTER LXIII.

From LIEN CHI ALTANGI to FUM HOAM, first Prefi dent of the Ceremonial Academy at Pekin, in China.

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IN every decurrence in

letter I expect accounts of fome new re

the ftate, or difafter among my private acquaintance.

I

open every pacquet with tremulous expectation, and am agreeably disappointed when I find my friends and my country continuing in felicity. I wander, but they are at reft; they suffer few changes, but what pafs in my own restless imagination; it is only the rapidity of my own motion, gives an imaginary fwiftnefs to objects which are in fome measure immoveable.

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