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JAY TO LINDLEY MURRAY. 301
eloquence has made great progress in this country.
Governments like ours are favourable to it. Every
work which really facilitates the attainment of that
influential science will meet with notice and respect.
Some of our compositions, however, are not free
from marks of incorrect taste, such as high-wrought
verbiage and too little simplicity; new words have
been admitted into our language incautiously, and in
some instances old words are used in senses which
did not formerly belong to them. It is to be wished
that no alteration in the English language may take
place in Britain or in America but such as the best
writers in both countries will adopt.
Being retired from the fatigues and constraints of
public life, I enjoy with real satisfaction the freedom
and leisure which has at length fallen to my lot. For
a long course of years I had been looking forward
with desire to the tranquil retirement in which I now
live, and my expectations from it have not been disappointed. I flatter myself that this is the inn at
which I am to stop in my journey through life. How
long I shall be detained is uncertain, but I rejoice in
the prospect of the probability of being permitted to
pass my remaining time in a situation so agreeable to
me. Do not conclude from this that I am without
cares and anxieties exclusive of those which are more
or less common to all men. I have an excellent son,
who has been obliged, by hectic complaints, to relinquish business and to pass two winters abroad. I
hope he will recover his health, but until all doubts
are removed some solicitude will remain. The truth
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 4 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Publisher | G.P. Putnam's Sons |
| Place of Publication | New York, London |
| Date | [1890-93] |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000328 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | JAY TO LINDLEY MURRAY. 301 eloquence has made great progress in this country. Governments like ours are favourable to it. Every work which really facilitates the attainment of that influential science will meet with notice and respect. Some of our compositions, however, are not free from marks of incorrect taste, such as high-wrought verbiage and too little simplicity; new words have been admitted into our language incautiously, and in some instances old words are used in senses which did not formerly belong to them. It is to be wished that no alteration in the English language may take place in Britain or in America but such as the best writers in both countries will adopt. Being retired from the fatigues and constraints of public life, I enjoy with real satisfaction the freedom and leisure which has at length fallen to my lot. For a long course of years I had been looking forward with desire to the tranquil retirement in which I now live, and my expectations from it have not been disappointed. I flatter myself that this is the inn at which I am to stop in my journey through life. How long I shall be detained is uncertain, but I rejoice in the prospect of the probability of being permitted to pass my remaining time in a situation so agreeable to me. Do not conclude from this that I am without cares and anxieties exclusive of those which are more or less common to all men. I have an excellent son, who has been obliged, by hectic complaints, to relinquish business and to pass two winters abroad. I hope he will recover his health, but until all doubts are removed some solicitude will remain. The truth |
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