on J. Barnes for 100D charity to
Carlisle College.
" 28 Gave Genl Winn ord. on J. Barnes for 100D charity to Jefferson
Monticello Academy in S. Carolina.
March 1. Gave in charity to the Revd Mr Chambers of Alexandria for his
church an order on J. Barnes for 50D
Nov 18 Gave order on J. Barnes for 100D in favor of Revd Mr Coffin for a
college in Tennessee.
We doubt whether since the Presidential salary was doubled any of
President Jefferson's successors has contributed as large a percentage
of his salary to charitable or religious uses.
INDOLENCE.
In a letter to his daughter Martha, written in March,1787, Jefferson
writes:
"Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes with so silent,
yet baneful a tooth, as indolence.
"Body and mind both unemployed, our being becomes a burthen, and every
object about us loathsome, even the dearest.
"Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondria, and that a diseased
body.
"No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.
"Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body
and cheerfulness of mind. These make us precious to our friends.
"It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not
then, it never is afterwards.
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