Day clear and milder than heretofore. To the Office where I read more of Rousseau’s Social Compact. He has an extraordinary clearness of style which makes every sentence tell. I think his mode of composition must be worth studying. It is but of late that my attention has been drawn so much to this matter, only since I have myself written so much.

Diary and Accounts. Received a letter from my father1 inclosing a necessary Draft to meet Josiah Adams’ demand. This is well. Home. Read over the fourteenth Satire of Juvenal. I now understand his reputation. This upon the example of Parents to children is admirable.

Afternoon, continued Levesque’s sketch of Peter. It would seem as if the Author of the family Library had compiled from this edition. Continued and finished the Letters of Voltaire and Mad. du Deffand. Evening, reading Beatrice, and afterwards Wallenstein.