il faut vous en acquitter galamment’.  In the days of ancient chivalry, people were very nice who they would be knighted by and, if I do not mistake, Francis the First would only be knighted by the Chevalier Bayard, ’qui etoit preux Chevalier et sans reproche’; and no doubt but it will be recorded, ’dans les archives de la Maison de Brunswick’, that Prince Ferdinand received the honor of knighthood from your hands.

The estimates for the expenses of the year 1759 are made up; I have seen them; and what do you think they amount to?  No less than twelve millions three hundred thousand pounds:  a most incredible sum, and yet already subscribed, and even more offered!  The unanimity in the House of Commons, in voting such a sum, and such forces, both by sea and land, is not the less astonishing.  This is Mr. Pitt’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes.

The King of Prussia has nothing more to do this year; and, the next, he must begin where he has left off.  I wish he would employ this winter in concluding a separate peace with the Elector of Saxony; which would give him more elbowroom to act against France and the Queen of Hungary, and put an end at once to the proceedings of the Diet, and the army of the empire; for then no estate of the empire would be invaded by a co-estate, and France, the faithful and disinterested guarantee of the Treaty of Westphalia, would have no pretense to continue its armies there.  I should think that his Polish Majesty, and his Governor, Comte Bruhl, must be pretty weary of being fugitives in Poland, where they are hated, and of being ravaged in Saxony.  This reverie of mine, I hope will be tried, and I wish it may succeed.  Good-night, and God bless you!

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Am still unwell; I cannot help it
Apt to make them think themselves more necessary than they are
but of this every man will believe as he thinks proper
Conjectures pass upon us for truths
Despair of your ever being, somebody
Enemies as if they may one day become one’s friends
Have I employed my time, or have I squandered it? 
Home, be it ever so homely
Jog on like man and wife; that is, seldom agreeing
Josephus
Less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in
Many things which seem extremely probable are not true
More one works, the more willing one is to work
Most ignorant are, as usual, the boldest conjecturers
Nipped in the bud
No great regard for human testimony
Not to communicate, prematurely, one’s hopes or one’s fears
Person to you whom I am very indifferent about, I mean myself
Petty jury
Something must be said, but that something must be nothing
Sow jealousies among one’s enemies
Think to atone by zeal for their want of merit and importance
Think yourself less well than you are, in order to be quite so
What have I done to-day? 
Will pay very dear for the quarrels and ambition of a few