1148. CARR (Dabney), Character.—[further continued].
This friend of ours, Page, in a very small house, with a table, half
a dozen chairs, and one or two servants, is
the happiest man in the universe. Every incident
in life he so takes as to render it a
source of pleasure. With as much benevolence
as the heart of man will hold, but with
an utter neglect of the costly apparatus of life,
he exhibits to the world a new phenomenon
in philosophy—the Samian sage in the tub of
the cynic. [71]
—
To John Page. Washington ed. i, 195.
Ford ed., i, 373.
(1770)
