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College Musings.
denunciations , and their doctrines are the greatest enemies of religion . I have read with more attention than half of them the Book of Christianity , and I admire the liberal and truly charitable principles which Christ has laid down . There are questions connected with this subject , which none but Almighty God can solve . Time and space who can conceive ?—None but God , —on Him I rely ! " I never read any modern publication with more zest than this book bMr . Parry .
y June 24 th . —Rose this morning not in the best spirits . This sultry weather very oppressive . It totally unfits me for any exertion mental or bodily . I amused myself the whole morning copying some of Moore ' s favourite and popular Melodies . O how sweet is the poesy of those ballads ! Nature and heart in almost every line . Singing them recals the happiest images to one ' s mind . Lovely rhyme set to plaintive strains . I am seized every day after dinner with a stupifying torpor , which
excessively annoys me , and to which the caloric state of the atmosphere , I suspect , greatly contributes . I detest saying any thing about one ' s repasts , they are so utterly void of all interest , as regards any part but the eating . Started for Whitehaven , meditating on men and things the whole perambulation , for the purpose of securing a passage to the Isle of Man . Went on board a sloop bound to Douglas Town . Saw the mate , and settled to sail next week . June 25 th . —Sunday . Nothing exempt from the usual monotony
occurring this day , except going to church , where , from the variety of gewgaws , airs , and graces manifested , the women appear to verify the motto , " spectatum veniunt , veniunt spectentur ut ipsae . " I could not help regarding two pretty girls , who appeared to possess that genuine feminine innocence of demeanour I so much admire in the female sex .
After dinner sauntered out with a charming string of young ladies upon the rocks , which at low water afford an excellent route to a very romantic cove with its appropriate cavern , where many native gems or pebbles peculiar to that shore are picked up by the connoisseur in mineralogy . Some of them , when cut ancl polished , are of a most rare and beautifnl graining . The colours are various , but when set in gold by the art of the jeweller , they have a most delicate and elegant appearance . The stones are quite peculiar to that part of the coastand are supposed to be
, washed thither from some other clime . The name by which they are designated , is moss agates , & c , ancl they are perfectly distinct iu their nature and quality from the Scotch pebble or Highland flint . It requires some practice to discern them from the ordinary strand of shingles . It was a beautifully calm evening , and the green sea looked like a smooth mirror . I much regretted there was no boat to enjoy the pleasure of an evening row . The Isle of Man , though some considerable distance off ,
appeared so contiguous , and such was the exceeding thinness of the air , that we could perceive the smoke of Douglas ascending from its chimney stacks . 1 had the happiness of moralising before going to bed upon the relative difference in the virtue of the " busy bee" and the hornet , a nest of which we discovered . I took good care to keep a respectful distance . The formation of the nest is wonderfully curious . Challenged F to a game of chess , at which , woe is me from being out of practice , I was beaten . Philosophically succumbed to my ill-fortune . Before retiring to rest , I was first occupied with massacring a cock-roach , which with spiders , ear-wigs , toads , and snakes , are my abhorrence . To-morrow , if the wind be fair , I sail for Mona .
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College Musings.
denunciations , and their doctrines are the greatest enemies of religion . I have read with more attention than half of them the Book of Christianity , and I admire the liberal and truly charitable principles which Christ has laid down . There are questions connected with this subject , which none but Almighty God can solve . Time and space who can conceive ?—None but God , —on Him I rely ! " I never read any modern publication with more zest than this book bMr . Parry .
y June 24 th . —Rose this morning not in the best spirits . This sultry weather very oppressive . It totally unfits me for any exertion mental or bodily . I amused myself the whole morning copying some of Moore ' s favourite and popular Melodies . O how sweet is the poesy of those ballads ! Nature and heart in almost every line . Singing them recals the happiest images to one ' s mind . Lovely rhyme set to plaintive strains . I am seized every day after dinner with a stupifying torpor , which
excessively annoys me , and to which the caloric state of the atmosphere , I suspect , greatly contributes . I detest saying any thing about one ' s repasts , they are so utterly void of all interest , as regards any part but the eating . Started for Whitehaven , meditating on men and things the whole perambulation , for the purpose of securing a passage to the Isle of Man . Went on board a sloop bound to Douglas Town . Saw the mate , and settled to sail next week . June 25 th . —Sunday . Nothing exempt from the usual monotony
occurring this day , except going to church , where , from the variety of gewgaws , airs , and graces manifested , the women appear to verify the motto , " spectatum veniunt , veniunt spectentur ut ipsae . " I could not help regarding two pretty girls , who appeared to possess that genuine feminine innocence of demeanour I so much admire in the female sex .
After dinner sauntered out with a charming string of young ladies upon the rocks , which at low water afford an excellent route to a very romantic cove with its appropriate cavern , where many native gems or pebbles peculiar to that shore are picked up by the connoisseur in mineralogy . Some of them , when cut ancl polished , are of a most rare and beautifnl graining . The colours are various , but when set in gold by the art of the jeweller , they have a most delicate and elegant appearance . The stones are quite peculiar to that part of the coastand are supposed to be
, washed thither from some other clime . The name by which they are designated , is moss agates , & c , ancl they are perfectly distinct iu their nature and quality from the Scotch pebble or Highland flint . It requires some practice to discern them from the ordinary strand of shingles . It was a beautifully calm evening , and the green sea looked like a smooth mirror . I much regretted there was no boat to enjoy the pleasure of an evening row . The Isle of Man , though some considerable distance off ,
appeared so contiguous , and such was the exceeding thinness of the air , that we could perceive the smoke of Douglas ascending from its chimney stacks . 1 had the happiness of moralising before going to bed upon the relative difference in the virtue of the " busy bee" and the hornet , a nest of which we discovered . I took good care to keep a respectful distance . The formation of the nest is wonderfully curious . Challenged F to a game of chess , at which , woe is me from being out of practice , I was beaten . Philosophically succumbed to my ill-fortune . Before retiring to rest , I was first occupied with massacring a cock-roach , which with spiders , ear-wigs , toads , and snakes , are my abhorrence . To-morrow , if the wind be fair , I sail for Mona .