Sunday, July 8, 1821

1821

July

Sunday 8

7

12 1/4

Sewing till after nine –

Damp rainy morning which prevented our going to church.  My aunt and I read the service – Became quite fair about 11, and tolerably fine –

Came upstairs at 12 40/60, from then to 4, making extract from Beloe’s note, etc. i.e. a short explication of Greek and Latin crosses, vide Extract D.; and a short extract from Sir Humphry Davy’s Agricultural Chemistry (in Extract Volume B) on the expansion of mercury in the tube of a thermometer –

Went downstairs at 4 1/4 – My aunt and I read the service and I then read aloud Sermon 8 (about 40 pp. pages) Dr. South, from Proverbs xvi.33. ‘The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord’ –

In the evening from 7 3/4 to 9 1/4, walked on the terrace – Read from page 91 to 114, Volume 1, Dacier’s Horace ‘Manes à été fait par les Doriens de l’Hébreu men, qui signifie le soleil, et le soleil est la même chose que Mens, Genius, ou Damon, comme les Leptante l’out traduit.’

Note on verse 16, Ode 4. Liber 1, Horace, Dacier Volume 1, page 93 – vide Horace Liber 1, Epistle 1. ‘Et prave sectum stomacheris ob unguem – Mecænas ne pouvoit souffrir un ongle mal fait, nullement un ongle mal aiguisé.’ Dacier, Volume 1, page 113.

Fine afternoon and very fine evening.  Barometer 1 3/4 degree above changeable.  Fahrenheit 54 12° at 9 1/4 p.m. –

Came upstairs 8 minutes before 11–

It occurs to me – the Ancients told visions to the sun to avert their bad effects – I remember noticing this in the Electra of Sophocles – and vide Note on Herodotus, Volume 2, page 3 – Is there some reference to this custom in the κοὐκ ἡλίωσε τοὖπος of verse 261. Trachiniæ? –

Vide Herodotus iv. 187. line 10. was this καταῤῥέον φλέγμα the ‘blennorrhagia to which the Persians and Russians are very much subject’? Vide Edinburgh Philosophical Journal No. 9 (volume 5), page 25. –

Writing and considering the above till 11 25/60 –

 

Marginal notes:

Quære.

Thursday afternoon 16 August 1821. On consulting Hooper’s Medical dictionary at Newcastle found blennorrhagia to be a discharge of mucous from the urethra, that it is not what is mentioned by Herodotus

 

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