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3805. HOSPITALITY, Practice of.—

You
know our practice of placing our guests at their
ease, by showing them we are so ourselves, and
that we follow our necessary vocations, instead
of fatiguing them by hanging unremittingly
on their shoulders.—
To F. W. Gilmer. Washington ed. vii, 5. Ford ed., x, 33.
(M. 1816)