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 ¬none more sincerely than myself, I do not at all wonder that his unprepared hearers were for a season at least surprized : and though, as you have heard,. they came to themselves afterwards, yet the recovery was too late : a strong sensa- tion had been created, which, extending to the other branch of our government, this high improvement of our national character was defeated; — but the good seed has been sown, and, as often happens in the natural world, lies dormant for a future and perhaps not a distant harvest. ¬" However extraordinary the observation may appear when applied to a person so justly re- spected for his talents, yet I can in no way ac- count for such unconquerable pertinacity in so wrong an opinion against all the dictates of his own general good-nature, and the common feelings of mankind, but by resorting to a doc- trine confirmed by much experience, that every man in the world (myself of course amongst the rest) is so strangely particular in some ¬d 2 point ¬ /n