“Your letter which I have this day received proposes for my consideration a question of prudence,
* With reference to the offer he says, in a letter to Mr. Bedford, after stating that it is solely from prudential motives, he “deemed it right to listen to the overture. It is not in the natural or fitting coarse of things that I should be put in harness at an age when I ought rather to be tamed oat to grass for the remainder of my days.” |
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“But I will dismiss from my mind at present all thoughts of this kind, and of the difficulties and objections on one side, and on the other the plans which would readily present themselves to be sketched and shaped. It would be losing time to think of these things now; only I may say, that my estimate of what would be to be done goes far beyond Mr. ——’s. My consideration would be, not with how little labour I might go through the functions of the Professorship, but how I might best discharge them for the benefit of those whom I should have to address, and for my own credit hereafter.
“Farewell, my dear Sir. Present our kind remembrances to Mrs. Taylor, and believe me always
