56 CLIMATE, SEASONS, &C. [PART L 



1818. 



Jan. 15. what a change! I looked down at 

 my dress. What a change ! What 

 scenes I had gone through ! How 

 altered my state ! I had dined the 

 day before at a secretary of state's 

 in company with Mr. Pitt, and had 

 been waited upon by men in gaudy 

 liveries ! I had had nobody to assist 

 me in the world. No teachers of 

 any sort. Nobody to shelter me 

 from the consequence of bad, and 

 no one to counsel me to good, be 

 haviour. I felt proud. The distinc 

 tions of rank, birth, and wealth, all 

 became nothing in my eyes; and 

 from that moment (less than a month 

 after my arrival in England) I re 

 solved never to bend before them. 



16. Same weather. Went to see my 

 old quaker-friends at Bustleton, and 

 particularly my beloved friend JAMES 

 PAUL, who is very ill. 



17. Returned to Philadelphia. Little 

 frost and a little snow. 



18.^ Moderate frost. Fine clear sky. 

 19. (The Philadelphians are cleanly, a 

 20. ( quality which they owe chiefly to 

 21 .} the Quakers. But, after being long 

 and recently familiar with the towns 



