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L’Ambition dans l’oisiveté, la Bassesse dans l’orgueil, Le Desir de s’enrichir Sans travail,...
I read in a great Writer, Montesquieu that “l’honneur, en imposant la loi de servir, veut en être...
“A Court,” as John Dryden informed me, before Experience, “is a place of forgetfulness for well...
The Peace, which Sets the rest of the World at Ease, increases, I think my Perplexities and...
I need not tell you I was much disappointed in not having the pleasure of your Company yesterday...
Did I feel myself conscious of any inclination to suspend a Correspondence that has given...
And why may I not write you, Madam, tho’ Mr. Thaxter should not go to America? Is the restriction...
Your two Letters concerning Mr. T yler are never out of my Mind. He is of a very numerous Family...
In acknowledging the receipt of your kind favor of 26th. October and in confessing it was...
Your kind Letters of Oct. 25. and November 13 came to hand but to day. A Packet from you is...
The Preliminaries of Peace and an Armistice, were Signed at Versailles on the 20 and on the 21....
I little expected, when writing to You on the 16th. instant, to have so soon congratulated You...
Yesterday I received your very obliging Letter and return you many thanks for your willingness to...
About three weeks agone, I forwarded a packet of Letters to Mr. Cranch, inclosing one to him—the...
For above a fortnight past I have been meditating a visit to Braintree but some unlucky...
I dare Say there is not a Lady in America treated with a more curious dish of Politicks, than is...
I intended to have wrote largely by this Opportunity, but have been confined ever since last...
Your Proposal of coming to Europe, has long and tenderly affected me. The Dangers and...
You will believe me, when I inform You, that I am grievously disappointed in only having to...
In my melancholy, unhappy Moments, (for such I sometimes have), I recur to my old Letters for...
I forwarded a Letter to You, Madam, yesterday by Capt. Barney, Commander of the Packet...
We arrived here the 26th. last Month after a tedious Journey in a crazy Carriage, with the...
The King of Great Britain, by a Commission under the great Seal of his Kingdom, has constituted...
I have taken the liberty to enclose a line to my Papa, under cover of yours; knowing it will go...
I write you, Madam, agreable to the request of Mr. Adams, having put up for you the sundry...
I am thus far advanced on my Journey, and shall continue it from hence tomorrow. I found Mr....
Yesterday arrived your kind Letters of the 3 and 5 of september. I am preparing to sett off...
I believe I shall set off for Paris next Fryday. Mr. Thaxter and Mr. Storer will go with me. The...
In receiving the Communication, that the T reaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States...
Je Suis au désespoire d’avoir oublié de vous remettre Le mémoire que vous avez eu La Complaisance...