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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8 2 0 Browse Search
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787, alluding to the proceedings of the Assembly of Notables: I am not less ardent in my wish that you may succeed in your plan of toleration in Washington's seal (from a letter to Bouquet, 1758). religious matters. Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church with that road to heaven which to them shall seem the Mount Vernon in Washington's day. most direct, plainest, easiest, and least liable to exception. Again, in a letter to Sir Edward Newenham, Oct. 20, 1792: Of all the animosities which have Private seal, 1783. existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy which has marked the present age would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see their religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to en