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5349. MONARCHY, Imitation of.—[continued].

The forms which I had
censured in my letter to Mazzei were perfectly
understood by General Washington, and were
those which he himself but barely tolerated.
He had furnished me a proper occasion for
proposing their reformation, and my opinion
not prevailing, he knew I could not have meant
any part of the censure for him.—
To Martin Van Buren. Washington ed. vii, 368. Ford ed., x, 311.
(M. 1824)