1To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, with a Note from Maria Cosway, 9 October 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
, famous for Theology, Stupidity and Strong beer—to Brussels, elegant, well built, clean, the inhabitants genteel, very hospitable to strangers. Stay’d with great pleasure there and, the sixth, came on by the Canal to this place. The new palace and park..., for example, is described in the journal as “famous at present for its university, general stupidity and strong beer” (p. 142).