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3 Monday. -

[1756-05-03]
I was mistaken one Day in my ...

May. 1756. 1 [i.e. 2] Sunday.

Docno: DJA01d113

Author: JA
Date: 1756-05-02
Last night we had rain all night accompanied with a very high Wind, and the storm continues. Heard Mr. Camel [Campbell] of Oxford. About noon cleard away. I think it necessary to call my self to a strict account, how I spend my Time, once a week at least. Since the 14th of April I have been studying the 1st Part of Butlers Analogy.1 Spent the Evening at home with Mes[srs]. Camel, Green.
 
1. Copious extracts from Joseph Butler’s celebrated Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature, first published in London, 1736, will be found in JA’s early commonplace book (Adams Papers, Microfilms, Reel No. 187).
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