Accept my thanks for the papers and pamphlets
which accompanied them, and mine and my daughters for the book of songs.
I will not tell you how much they have pleased us, nor how well the last
of them merits praise for its pathos, but relate a fact only, which
is, that while my elder daughter was playing it on the harpsichord, I
happened to look towards the fire, and saw the younger one all in
tears. I asked her if she was sick? She said, 'No; but the tune was so
mournful.'
The Editor of the _Encyclopedie_ has published something as to an
advanced price on his future volumes, which, I understand, alarms the
subscribers. It was in a paper which I do not take, and therefore I have
not yet seen it, nor can I say what it is. I hope that by this time
you have ceased to make wry faces about your vinegar, and that you have
received it safe and good. You say that I have been dished up to you
as an anti-federalist, and ask me if it be just. My opinion was never
worthy enough of notice, to merit citing; but since you ask it, I will
tell it to you. I am not a federalist, because I never submitted the
whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever,
in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in any thing else, where
I was capable of thinking for myself.
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