Wednesday, July 11, 1821

1821

July

Wednesday 11

7 10/60

11 35/60

Before breakfast, did from theorem 88, page 321 (that is, 7 theorems) to Planes and Solids, page 326, Volume 1, Hutton

Came upstairs at 10 3/4 – Dawdled over my extract books etc.  From 11 20/60 to 5 3/4, read chapter 92, Herodotus (Terpsichore), and afterwards from page 459 1/2 to 467 1/2, Beloe’s translation – About 5 pages of Greek, which took me about 1 1/2 hour – All the rest of the time making notes, and searching for references in Ovid and Virgil – Beloe is some times not 1/2 particular enough in his references – e.g. he quotes some lines from one of Ovid’s elegies – I cannot find them there, though having looked them all over – I meant to have finished Terpsichore tomorrow, but, at this rate, I cannot – It matters not – To do a little and well is the best –

In the evening from 7 40/60 to 9 10/60, walked along the road as far as the Crow Nest gates, and, on my return, meeting my uncle at the new road, sauntered about with him till I was quite cold, and then walked 1/4 hour on the terrace to get warm again –

Fine day – Barometer 2 1/2 degrees above changeable – Fahrenheit 57° at 9 1/2 p.m. –

Bought a couple of single cotton night-caps this morning of Richards, an itinerant hosier from Nottingham, for 1/4 – i.e. 8 pence each – Cheap enough –

Upstairs 10 40/60 –

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