adams-john10 Neal Millikan
Recreation
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22. Very dull weather. Wrote a little in the forenoon. Long
walk. Baggage from Hamburg reached us. Fortunate that it was not longer
on the passage as the freezing of the river may be now daily expected.
Took out some books.— Read the first part of the pursuits of Literature
a Satirical poem, with Notes. The verse a little above mediocrity. The
notes have little genius, but are stuffed with quotations in many a
language and from all sorts of writers, an affected display of learning.
The work is a garment composed of shreds and patches from every quarter—
The author’s own ideas are as thinly scattered and as puny as the grass
upon the sands of Brandenburg.
