Diary of Charles Francis Adams, volume 8
1839-08-29
Cold and cloudy. At home all day. Evening at the Mansion.
I have not much to record of this day beyond what happens very regularly. I devoted a couple of hours to copying and one to studying out Law’s System in Stewart’s political Economy.1 I am gaining the details by degrees but the measures are so intricate that it will require a great deal of time and patience to evolve them. I think yet that I shall find something which will pay me for it. But I lose my German.
After dinner Tacitus book 1, sections 30–50 of the history, and an hour’s work upon my grounds. Evening spent at the house below. My father had been to Cambridge to the ΦΒΚ and returned late.
Dugald Stewart, Notes of Lectures on Political Economy, 2 vols., Edinburgh, 1802. These volumes contain the notes, purportedly verbatim, taken by a student at Stewart’s lectures in 1800. Stewart’s own text was first published in his Works in 1854 (
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