To Jane Mecom Dear Sister, London, Jan. 9. 1760 I received a Letter or two from you, in which I perceive you have misunderstood and taken unkindly something I said to you in a former jocular one of mine concerning CHARITY. I forget what it was exactly, but I am sure I neither express nor…
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Conversation Warms the Mind
To Lord Kames My dear Lord, London, Jany. 3. 1760 I ought long before this time to have acknowledg’d the Receipt of your Favour of Nov. 2. Your Lordship was pleas’d kindly to desire to have all my Publications. I had daily Expectations of procuring some of them from a Friend to whom I formerly…
Humourous Reasons for Restoring Canada
Mr. Chronicle, We Britons are a nation of statesmen and politicians; we are privy councellors by birthright; and therefore take it much amiss when we are told by some of your correspondents, `that it is not proper to expose to public view the many good reasons there are for restoring Canada,’ (if we reduce it.)…
Those Who Would Have Peace with France
A Description of Those, Who, at Any Rate, Would Have a Peace with France The two prevailing motives among us, which strongly bias great numbers of people, at this time, to wish for a peace with France, let the terms be ever so dishonourable, ever so disadvantageous, or likely to prove of ever so short…
A Defense of the Americans
A New Englandman to the Printer of the London Chronicle: A Defense of the Americans To the Printer of the CHRONICLE. SIR, While the public attention is so much turned towards America, every letter from thence that promises new information, is pretty generally read; it seems therefore the more necessary that care should be taken…