After all I can say, you will remain the best judge of my good and your own circumstances.

Perhaps, like most landed gentlemen, an addition to my annuity would suit you better than a sum of money given at once; perhaps the sum itself may be too considerable.

Whatever you may think proper to bestow on me, or in whatever manner, will be received with equal gratitude.
"I intended to stop here, but as I abhor the least appearance of art, I think it better to lay open my whole scheme at once.

The unhappy war which now desolates Europe will oblige me to defer seeing France till a peace.

But that reason can have no influence on Italy, a country which every scholar must long to see.