Extract from Francis Hall's Account of a Visit to Monticello, [7–8 Jan. 1817] [Quote]
I found Mr. Jefferson tall in person, but stooping and lean with old age, thus exhibiting that fortunate mode of bodily decay, which strips the frame of its most cumbersome parts, leaving it still strength of muscle and activity of limb. His deportment was exactly such as the Marquis de...
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