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918. BOOKS, Recommending.—

It is
with extreme reluctance that I permit myself
to usurp the office of an adviser of the public,
what books they should read, and what not.
I yield, however, on this occasion to your
wish and that of Colonel Taylor, and do


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what (with a single exception only) I never
did before, on the many similar applications
made to me.—
To Spencer Roane. Washington ed. vii, 212. Ford ed., x, 189.
(M. 1821)