July 18, 1845.
I suppose nobody is ever expected to acknowledge his or her ‘besetting sin’ — it would be unnatural — and therefore you will not be surprised to hear me deny the one imputed to me for mine. I deny it quite and directly. And if my denial goes for nothing, which is but reasonable, I might call in a great cloud of witnesses, . . . a thundercloud, . . . Continue reading “#62”
