He is always planning some benevolent scheme or other, and not only planning but executing; he is made up altogether of affectionate feeling.

What I saw of him in private gave me the most exalted opinion of him as a Christian.
Oh, that such men as Mr.Wilberforce were more common in this world.

So much human blood would not then be shed to gratify the malice and revenge of a few wicked, interested men.
"I hope Cousin Samuel Breese will distinguish himself under so gallant a commander as Captain Perry.

I shall look with anxiety for the sailing of the Guerriere.

There will be plenty of opportunity for him, for peace with us is deprecated by the people here, and it only remains for us to fight it out gallantly, as we are able to do, or submit slavishly to any terms which they please to offer us.