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A Reply to the Strictures of Lord Mahon and Others
A Reply to the Strictures of Lord Mahon and Others Author:Jared Sparks Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: enabled you to make to the papers you obtained at Mount Vernon. Your notes of illustration are extremely valuable. But I have read no part of these volumes with ... more »so much pleasure, as the series of maxims under the head of ' Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation.' These rules, of which I had never before heard, furnish a key with which to open the original character of this truly great man. " With great and respectful esteem, " I am your obedient " J. Marshall." After receiving three more volumes, Judge Marshall wrote again as follows. " Richmond, April 29th, 1835. " Dear Sir; I have deferred acknowledging the receipt of your favor of the 4th, until I should have it in my power to look over three additional volumes of your great work, which you have had the kindness to forward to me through Mr. Sanxay. I am much indebted to you for this continued and gratifying attention. " Our Washington appears himself, and consequently to advantage, in the full-length portrait you have given of him. Your illustrative notes are very interesting, and add much, in my opinion, to the value of the text. That in the Appendix to the fifth volume, which develops Con- way's Cabal, is peculiarly so. Many of the letters had not previously been seen by the public. " The papers in the Appendix to the sixth volume, which show the difference of opinion between the King and LordNorth respecting the American war, disclose an historical fact which was entirely unknown, at least in this country. The obstinacy with which his Majesty pursued his original plan, though previously pretty well understood, is presented in a still stronger light than I had imagined. The more rational views entertained by Lord North were not even suspected. " The fact to which you allude,...« less