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well fortified does he think himself in his cobweb Gibraltar, that he blandly imagines the force of my
passionate, well-wishing, which I felt then, and feel to this hour, the gratitude and reverence of my
And my arriere and citadel positions—such as I have indicated in my June North American Review memorandum—were
as a statement “of all that could be said against that part (and a main part) in the construction of my
On the contrary, without waiting to understand what he has read, he talks about my letter to you being
the details of an outrage so sigual in its character and so sinister in its bearings as to become, in my
I rubbed my eyes a little to see if this sunbeam were no illusion; but the solid sense of the book is
I wish to see my benefactor, and have felt much like striking my tasks and visiting New-York to pay you
my respects.