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4610. LEGISLATURES, Slothful.—

The
sloth of the [French National] Assembly ( unavoidable
from their number) has done the
most sensible injury to the public cause. The
patience of a people who have less of that
quality than any other nation in the world,
is worn threadbare.—
To John Jay. Washington ed. iii, 115.
(P. Sep. 1789)