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4739. LIFE, Chronicles of.—

Fifteen volumes
of anecdotes and incidents, within the
compass of my own time and cognizance,
written by a man of genius, of taste, of point,
an acquaintance, the measure and traverses of
whose mind I know, could not fail to turn the
scale in favor of life during their perusal.—
To John Adams. Washington ed. vii, 27.
(M. 1816)