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Surely my dear John you were not in your usual state when you wrote and enclosed George’s Letter to me or you could not have put such a construction upon it—Remember that when we undertake to correct the faults of others we should have attained to years of experience and have acquired by this means the capacity of advizing or else have conquered and eradicated all those failings in ourselves...
Your goodness will Please to Excuse this application for as Circumstances stand, it is not to be avoided, I think I stated to you in mine of the 15. Last Febr y my Intentions to leave this City on the first day of April and wishing to be as Punctual as I can to aney Contract made, I have tharfore packed up all my moveables. my House is Let and my self only waiting your verey obligling...
I receved Valuued favor a few howers after I sent to you my Last letter and am sory I have given you that Trouble. I also recved a Letter from Mr Brockenbrough of which I Cant help saying that I am not only Very much astonished but much disapointed, your Condesention to peruse the Inclosed letter will Inform you of my dissatisfaction, you be so kind as to Inclose as soon as you & m r B. has...
I recieved in due time your favor of the 8 th and have to return you my thanks for the copy of the Journal of the Law-school which you have been so kind as to send me, requesting at the same time an opinion on it’s merits for the press. it is now 50. years since I retired from the practice of the law, and my vocations since that time have not been of a character to keep me in familiarity with...
I begin my letter, as you end yours of March 13th. with the word Amen . I admire your liberal philosophy and the large scale of your Religion, I cannot conceive however in your preferance in Presbyterianism, the presbytery have too much priestly Authority in matters of faith, like that which is claimed by the Episcopal Church, And the doctrines of both the Churches are too Calvinistical for...
It is with much pleasure I proceed to send You a few lines. the sincere respect which I posses for you certainly compels me to a rememberance. I have cut a little short my Journey in stead of going on to Missouri have haulted in Kentucky . we had the wost weather while travelling that ever travellers experienced after our departure from albemarle about the end of the first weeks travel it...
The papers which I now return you have been delayed only long enough to be communicated to mr Madison & returned by him. they are advantageous testimonials certainly of your familiarity with the languages in which they are written. but until the debt of the University (180,000.D) shall be discharged and it’s funds liberated, the institution cannot be opened, and the uncertainty when this will...
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The inclosed letter is from a man who takes care of my garden to his brother in Scotland from whom I lately recd. a letter saying that the brother here had not been heard of for several years, and requesting that the distress of the family might be relieved by a few lines from me wth. whom it was known he had been living. As a no. of letters have been sent, & of course miscarried, the writer...
Mr. Dodge, our Consul at Marseilles, wishing to pay his respects to you on his way to Richmd. and apprehending that altho presented to you some half dozen years ago, you may not now recollect him, requests me to give him a line of re-introduction. You will find him a person of very general information and good sense, and particularly familiar with the affairs of Southern Europe. We shall hope...