Docno: ADMS-03-02-02-0002-0012-0024
Author: Adams, John Quincy
Date: 1787-11-24
I went in the forenoon, and exhibited my complaints to Dr. Swett, but he told me,
they were not worth speaking of; and so I will e'en let them take their chance.
This afternoon Townsend, and I, went down to Mr. Tracey's, upon a disagreeable piece
of business, but which we got through quite comfortably. Ben Hooper called on me in
the evening. I have again begun upon Gibbon's roman history, and hope, I shall this
time go through.
1 I read the first volume last Spring; but at that time my avocations were so numerous,
that I could not proceed in reading the book. I admire the style, and in general the
Sentiment, though I think there is sometimes an affectation of
{ 321 } wit in the one, and sometimes a glaring tinsel in the other, which are far beneath
the majestic simplicity of nature.