[Footnote 1: To which honour Dr Burney was elected, by the wholly unsolicited votes of the members _des beaux arts_. His daughter brought over his diploma from Paris.] The earliest pride of my heart was to inscribe to my much-loved Father the first public effort of my pen; though the timid offering, unobtrusive and anonymous, was long unpresented; and, even at last, reached its destination through a zeal as secret as it was kind, by means which he would never reveal; and with which, till within these last few months, I have myself been unacquainted.…
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