I remember studying Caesar there with George Brooks, afterward judge, and reading with him an account of some battle where Caesar barely escaped being killed, on which Brooks's comment was "I wish to thunder he had been!
Hoar shares a memory of studying Caesar with a friend and a humorous comment made during their reading.
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