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...write is in it's nature teftamentary. It may have the weakneis, but it lias the fincerity of a «lying declaration. For the few days I have to linger here, I am removed completely from the bufy fcene of the world ; but I hold myfelf to be ftill refponfible for every tiling that I have done...

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...is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure that he may speak it the lonnger. But as the same rules do not hold in all cases —...continued on the place of action. If the rawest Tyro in politicks has been influenced by the authority of my grey hairs, and led by any thing in my speeches,...

...no sense for me, who cannot, without absurdity, calculate on six months of life. What I say, I mi'Nl say at once. Whatever I write is in its nature testamentary....continued on the place of action. If the rawest Tyro in politicks has been influenced by the authority of my grey hairs, and led by any thing in my speeches,...

...for action I am at the end of my career." At the conclusion of the first letter he again adds — " What I say, I must say at once. Whatever I write is...but it has the sincerity of a dying declaration." When peace was eagerly sought, and as eagerly anticipated perhaps because it was sought, he calmly...

...hold my tongue, or I must speak with freedom. Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever : be inevitably disposed to such pernicious habits, merely from the short duration politicks has been influenced by the authority of my grey hairs, and led by any thing in my speeches,...

...hold my tongue, or I must speak with freedom. Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever : but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there...continued on the place of action. If the rawest Tyro in politicks has been influenced by the authority of my grey hairs, and led by any thing in my speeches,...

...for action I am at the end of my career." At the conclusion of the first letter he again adds — " What I say, I must say at once. Whatever I write is...but it has the sincerity of a dying declaration." When peace was eagerly sought, and as eagerly anticipated perhaps because it was sought, he calmly...

...the summons from a life of labour; realizing the presentiment under which he seems to have begun ; "What I say I must say at once. Whatever I write is...but it has the sincerity of a dying declaration." Such it turned out to be. In this last bequest of wisdom, he emphatically pronounced an opinion yet...