Letter to Thomas Gray (1766) [ ]
… health, and have persisted through this Siberian winter in not adding a grain to m y clothes, and in going open-breasted without an under-waistcoat. In short, though I like extremely to live, it must be in m y own way, as long as I can: it is … a whole nation in four or five months; but, for the time, few, I believe, have seen, studied, or got so much acquainted with the French as I have. By what I said of their religious or rather irreligious opinions, you must not conclude their … but as the Duc de Choiseul, who is very fluttering, unsettled, and inclined to the philosophers, has made a compromise with the Parliament of Bretagne, the parliaments might venture out again, if, as I fancy will be the case, they are not …
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