lately been in my power to make two persons (and their connections) comfortable,
pro tempore
, and one happy,
ex tempore
,—I rejoice in the last particularly, as it is an excellent man
. I wish there had been more convenience and less gratification to my self-love in it, for then there had been more merit. We are all selfish—and I believe, ye gods of Epicurus! I
in Rochefoucault about