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reproach me for “<u>having driven</u> you from your <u>o</u>ld friends, & the southern Coast <u>this Summ</u>er”. | reproach me for “<u>having driven</u> you from your <u>o</u>ld friends, & the southern Coast <u>this Summ</u>er”. | ||
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reproach me for “having driven you from your old friends, & the southern Coast this Summer”.
The little acrimonious spirit of a few angry Words evaporates, & is soon forgiven & forgot; but the solid merit of just & generous conduct rests & is (as it ought to be) tenderly & gratefully remember’d—
At present you think my late requisition harsh, imperious, & severe; but Time & Reflexion will shew it to your Mind in a very different point of View.—For in Truth, instead of barbarously driving you from any real Enjoyments, I have only persuaded you (as tenderly as I could) to relinquish a project, which must have griev’d yrself in the End, because it must have been painful & injurious to me, Whom, even in an angry Moment, you would, I am persuaded, be truly sorry either to injure or afflict – the more so, as ill Health & ill Luck have, for a considerable time, loaded me with as many afflictions, & more, than a good natur’d being would wish even an Ennemy [sic]