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I have been led to uests

whoent's It was a sers; but they seemed to be all particular friends of our host, and

yet none of them appeared to be on any terh, such a party would have been at first a little cold; each

of the guests would there have paused to estiers before co himself with any topic of

conversation But here, the circuether by a

entleranted, that the persons who, and, without dee of their respective political and

philosophical principles, before venturing to speak on such subjects,

discussed frankly, and as things unconnected with party feelings,

incidental occurrences which, in Edinburgh, would have been avoided as

calculated to awaken animosities

But the most remarkable feature of the company, small as it was,

consisted of the difference in the condition and character of the guests

In Edinburgh the landlord, with the scrupulous care of a herald or

genealogist, would, for a party, previously unacquainted with each other,

have chosen his guests as nearly as possible from the same rank of life;