Dear Lamb,I address you with all humility, because I know you to be tenax propositi.

Adj. resolved &c v.; determined; strong-willed, strong-minded; resolute &c (brave) 861; self-possessed; decided, definitive, peremptory, tranchant^; unhesitating, unflinching, unshrinking^; firm, iron, gritty [U.S.], indomitable, game to the backbone; inexorable, relentless, not to be shaken, not to be put down; tenax propositi

[Horace]; justus et tenax propositi

Nostri primum sit propositi affectionum causas indagare; res ipsa hortari videtur, nam alioqui earum curatio, manca et inutilis esset.

Propositi nondum pudet, atque eadem est mens, Ut bona summa putes, alienâ vivere quadrâ.

No other man of his race have I known in whom the patriotic fire burned more intensely, or who better merited the description of the Latin poet, "Justum et tenacem propositi virum," or had more of the English bulldog tenacity in a cause which he considered just and of vital importance to the country.

The classical reader will here be reminded of that beautiful passage of Horace, commencing with "Justum et tenacem propositi virum.

You never saw anything so unlike as being here five months out of place, to the congresses of a fortnight in place; but you know the "Justum et tenacem propositi virum" can amuse himself without the "Civium ardor!"