Diary of John Quincy Adams, volume 2

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1786-08-07

7th. Adams, John Quincy
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I could not sleep last night. Lay restless till about 3 in the morning. Then got up, and read one of Bishop Berkeley's Dialogues against matter,1 a curious System, and rather a new one to me. At day light I went again to bed, and slept till eleven o'clock. In the afternoon I went down to see my Grand-mamma, but she was not at home.

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Presumably George Berkeley, Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous..., London, 1713.