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368. ANIMOSITIES, Rekindling.—

Peace with all the world, and a quiet descent
through the remainder of my time, are now
so necessary to my happiness that I am unwilling,
by the expression of any opinion before
the public, to rekindle ancient animosities,


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covered under their ashes indeed, but not extinguished.—
To George Hay. Ford ed., x, 265.
(M. 1823)