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College Musings.
evening very much to my own self-satisfaction ! Thus vanity closes this day ' s transactions . June 21 st . - Little transpired to day . I made a call to inquire after some of the party last night , and just "dropped in" time enough to have the privilege of a ramble with two of the young ladies up a very rural avenue locally called Wood-lane . Every village that I ever visited has its lover ' s alleywhere all the tender nothings of courtship are whispered
, by doting swains to willing maidens . The passion of love is incontrovertibly an universal impulse whether among " Jew , Greek , or Barbarian , bond , or free , Turk , Infidel , Savage , or Heretic . " June 22 nd . —Heartily wearied with my tedious progress in the labours of revision , I at last completed my orations with most buoyant pleasure . Composed a pasquinade on a certain affected daughter of Eve . Cannot bear airs , and artificial modes of any kind , either in male or female .
Always a sure token of an imbecile understanding , or an uncultivated mind . Lieutenant P , R . N ., rode up while ^ I was committing direful devastation among the strawberry beds . Conveyed to my conception the most perfect idea of a fine , bluffj veteran naval officer ; wholl y devoid of the mawkish politeness of the studied urbanity of a civilian , and without the coarseness of the Jack Tar . Perused the "Sunday Times , " latest edition from the Metropolis . It was my favourite newspaper , from its
independance and impartiality . While noting remarks upon the public Journals , I cannot refrain from expressing my disgust on reading the various disclosures of venality and corruption exhibited during the present great and general election throughout Great Britain . * All the
warnings of the public press will not deter such mercenary hirelings from hawking their rights and freedom to the highest bidder , and bartering the liberties of their country for a drunken carousal ! Oh ! the moral and political degeneracy of John Bull ! June 23 rd . —Up with the lark this morning . Dreadfully annoyed with my old complaint ; some say it is often hypochondriacism . A long word for want of sympathy in the infirmities of our fellow creatures . After breakfast read a chapter in Parry ' s last days of Lord B a book
yron ; that interested me exceedingly , from the apparent unartificial , frank , and sincere manner in which the author addresses his readers , and discloses to them the most absorbing particulars of that illustrious individual ' s life . I had hitherto been rather prejudiced , more from rumour and misrepresentation than any substantial grounds against that great man ' s general character . Alas ! what ills and unhappiness do such unfounded reports disseminate in almost every society . But this narrative , if authentic ancl
accurate , indubitabl y altered my sentiments on many points of his lordship ' s reputation , and convincingly demonstrates that Greece lost her very best friend when death so prematurely carried him off the scene of his active succours in her manly cause . The author seems correct in his opinion , that Byron ' s dissolution was hastened by extreme irritation of mind , augmented by a thousand vexatious annoyances , and especially by improper treatment in the remedies prescribed for his bhis
recovery y inexpert physicians . His death-bed opinions and sentiments on the Christian religion , which I here extract , most satisfactorily develope his real views on that all-important topic . " Christianity , " his Lordship writes , "is the purest and most liberal religion in the world ; but the numerous teachers , who are continually worryinq mankind with their
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College Musings.
evening very much to my own self-satisfaction ! Thus vanity closes this day ' s transactions . June 21 st . - Little transpired to day . I made a call to inquire after some of the party last night , and just "dropped in" time enough to have the privilege of a ramble with two of the young ladies up a very rural avenue locally called Wood-lane . Every village that I ever visited has its lover ' s alleywhere all the tender nothings of courtship are whispered
, by doting swains to willing maidens . The passion of love is incontrovertibly an universal impulse whether among " Jew , Greek , or Barbarian , bond , or free , Turk , Infidel , Savage , or Heretic . " June 22 nd . —Heartily wearied with my tedious progress in the labours of revision , I at last completed my orations with most buoyant pleasure . Composed a pasquinade on a certain affected daughter of Eve . Cannot bear airs , and artificial modes of any kind , either in male or female .
Always a sure token of an imbecile understanding , or an uncultivated mind . Lieutenant P , R . N ., rode up while ^ I was committing direful devastation among the strawberry beds . Conveyed to my conception the most perfect idea of a fine , bluffj veteran naval officer ; wholl y devoid of the mawkish politeness of the studied urbanity of a civilian , and without the coarseness of the Jack Tar . Perused the "Sunday Times , " latest edition from the Metropolis . It was my favourite newspaper , from its
independance and impartiality . While noting remarks upon the public Journals , I cannot refrain from expressing my disgust on reading the various disclosures of venality and corruption exhibited during the present great and general election throughout Great Britain . * All the
warnings of the public press will not deter such mercenary hirelings from hawking their rights and freedom to the highest bidder , and bartering the liberties of their country for a drunken carousal ! Oh ! the moral and political degeneracy of John Bull ! June 23 rd . —Up with the lark this morning . Dreadfully annoyed with my old complaint ; some say it is often hypochondriacism . A long word for want of sympathy in the infirmities of our fellow creatures . After breakfast read a chapter in Parry ' s last days of Lord B a book
yron ; that interested me exceedingly , from the apparent unartificial , frank , and sincere manner in which the author addresses his readers , and discloses to them the most absorbing particulars of that illustrious individual ' s life . I had hitherto been rather prejudiced , more from rumour and misrepresentation than any substantial grounds against that great man ' s general character . Alas ! what ills and unhappiness do such unfounded reports disseminate in almost every society . But this narrative , if authentic ancl
accurate , indubitabl y altered my sentiments on many points of his lordship ' s reputation , and convincingly demonstrates that Greece lost her very best friend when death so prematurely carried him off the scene of his active succours in her manly cause . The author seems correct in his opinion , that Byron ' s dissolution was hastened by extreme irritation of mind , augmented by a thousand vexatious annoyances , and especially by improper treatment in the remedies prescribed for his bhis
recovery y inexpert physicians . His death-bed opinions and sentiments on the Christian religion , which I here extract , most satisfactorily develope his real views on that all-important topic . " Christianity , " his Lordship writes , "is the purest and most liberal religion in the world ; but the numerous teachers , who are continually worryinq mankind with their