 I know also, and it is necessary that you should be informed, that he is overwhelmed with a correspondence from all quarters, most of them upon trifling subjects and in a more trifling style, with unmeaning visits from Multitudes of People, chiefly from...  Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society - Pagina 74door Massachusetts Historical Society - 1925Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1873 - 968 pagina’s
...In all tlie other letters the modern style will be followed in the printing. Here is the epistle : "There is another thing which I am obliged to mention : there are so many private Families, Ladiee and Gentlemen, that he visita so often, and they arc so fond of him that he can not well avoid... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale, Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - 1886 - 522 pagina’s
...style, with unmeaning visits from Multitudes of People, chiefly from the Vanity of having it to say that they have seen him. There is another thing which I...cannot well avoid it, — and so much intercourse with Academicians, that all these things together keep his mind in a constant state of dissipation. If indeed... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - 1887 - 324 pagina’s
...with un^ meaning visits from multitudes of people, chiefly from the vanity of having it to say that they have seen him. There is another thing which I...cannot well avoid it, — and so much intercourse with Academicians, that all these things together keep his mind in a constant state of dissipation." Business... | |
 | John Torrey Morse - 1889 - 454 pagina’s
...People, chiefly from the Vanity of having it to say that they have seen him. There is another thing that I am obliged to mention. There are so many private...cannot well avoid it, — and so much intercourse with Academicians, that all these things together keep his mind in a constant state of dissipation. If indeed... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1889 - 708 pagina’s
...chiefly from the vanity of having it to say that they have seen him. There is another thing which I ani obliged to mention; there are so many private families,...visits so often, and they are so fond of him, that he can not well avoid it, and so much intercourse with academicians, that all these things together keep... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - 1896 - 320 pagina’s
...unmeaning visits from multitudes of people, chiefly from the vanity of having it to say that they hiive seen him. There is another thing which I am obliged...often, and they are so fond of him, that he cannot \yell avoid it, — and so much intercourse with Academicians, that all these things together keep... | |
 | Edward Robins - 1898 - 444 pagina’s
...Englander writes to Samuel Adams, "hates to offend, and seldom gives any opinion till obliged to do it. There are so many private families, ladies and gentlemen,...cannot well avoid it, — and so much intercourse with Academicians, that all these things together keep his mind in a constant state of dissipation." All... | |
 | James Breck Perkins - 1911 - 580 pagina’s
...People, chiefly from the Vanity of having it to say that they have seen him. There is another thing that I am obliged to mention. There are so many private...cannot well avoid it, — and so much intercourse with Academicians, that all these things together keep his mind in a constant state of dissipation. . .... | |
 | Willis Steell - 1928 - 272 pagina’s
...visits from Multitudes of People, chiefly from the Vanity of having to say that they have seen him, there are so many private families, Ladies, and gentlemen...often, and they are so fond of him, that he cannot avoid it, — and so much intercourse with Academicians, that all these things keep his mind in a constant... | |
 | Richard N. Rosenfeld - 1998 - 1012 pagina’s
...December 5, 1778. Today, from Paris, John Adams writes his good friend James Warren of Massachusetts, There is another thing which I am obliged to mention....so many private Families Ladies and Gentlemen that [Dr. Franklin] visits so often . . . and so much intercourse with Academicians that all these things... | |
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