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the appointment of the Preacher) Mr Jefferson; his
Text was out of Solomon: "When a Man's ways please
the Lord, he maketh even his Enemies to be at peace
with him." I perceiv'd by his discourse he is rather
a friend to Lord Bute than otherwise; and even all
most apprehensive of a civil War if the present
factious Disposition in the Nation should continue.
the whole Service was concluded with Handel's Coronation
Anthem; in the Evening we had Fire-works
play'd off; the expences defray'd by Subscription.—
I was very much surprized to hear you had enter'd
Sammy at Westminster, I should have imagined it might
have been as well if he had continued at Mr Willis's 2 years
longer, from the observation I had made at School, that Boy
that were enter'd there at the Beginning seldom turn'd
out so well as those that had continued some time at a private
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