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Docno: ADMS-03-02-02-0001-0007-0007

Author: Adams, John Quincy

Date: 1786-08-07

7th.

I could not sleep last night. Lay restless till about 3 in the morning. Then got up, and read one of Bishop Berkeley's Dialogues against matter,1 a curious System, and rather a new one to me. At day light I went again to bed, and slept till eleven o'clock. In the afternoon I went down to see my Grand-mamma, but she was not at home.

1. Presumably George Berkeley, Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous..., London, 1713.

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