A very heavy rain from the North East. I continued Schiller’s Thirty Year’s War. If I was now at home how many collateral investigations this would lead me into. I shall not probably have finished before my return when it may not be too late. I wish to be more accurate upon the particular divisions of the German Principalities and their connexion and relation to the Austrian Emperor. Without understanding these it is very difficult to follow up any portion of the history of Germany. And I am becoming more and more interested in the pursuit of German Literature.

Attended divine service all day and heard Mr. Frothingham in the morning, Mr. Greenwood in the Afternoon.1 House nearly empty. Revelations 5. 9. “And they sung a new song saying Thou art worthy to take the book and open the seals thereof.” Proverbs. 28. 14. “Happy is the man that feareth alway.” The first discourse I lost the thread of, the last had little or none worth following. Mr. Greenwood is commonplace and sleepy. I cannot find much ore in him. Yet he has many and warm admirers. He has an easy delivery which many prefer to animation but it appears to me to be always tending to a doze.

Returned home and read Barrow’s second Sermon upon slander, the text being the same as before. His last described the character of slander, this exposed it’s folly. The text however was not a very happy one for folly is an inappropriate word for slander. The discourse was short and sensible but not one of the best. Afternoon and evening, Grimm and Wilhelm Meister.