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took a foolscap-sheet, and wrote 2 pretty close ppages to Miss McLean This took me from twelve to near six —
In the evening read aloud from page 183. to 247. volume 1. Paley’s Evidences — Very fine, frosty day — Barometer 3 1/2 degrees below changeable Fahrenheit
24 1/2° at 9. p.m. — Came upstairs at 10 35/60 — E..||.. O. Felt the discharge a little about one and therefore then as well as just
before dinner used one syringe of soap lotion each time and two oof cold water immediately afterwards as usual —
Tuesday 14
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11 3/4
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out at 8 50/60 — walked to and from Lidget — gave Hotspur corn — At 10 50/60 my aunt and I off in the gig to Haughend, Major and
and Mrs. Henry Priestley got home from Gosport etc. last Sunday week after an absence of 5 months — Mrs. Priestley of Kebroyde, and Mrs. William
Henry Rawson of Millhouse there part of our time — staid there above an hour — drove back in 3/4 hour and got home at 2 — Major Priestley and his
wife passed Lawton in the coach — a traveller (in the coach) who seemed accustomed to travel in the neighbourhood told them Mrs. Lawton hunted
with her husband — was a fine woman — a fine woman on horseback — Dr. Belcombe (he thought) was rather serious — he had seen
him at the evening lectures — From 2 to 5 dawdled over 1 thing or other — Cut my nails used soap lotion two syringes at once
as usual looked into my pharmacopeia and my little venus respecting the venereal disorder and made a jar of alum lo
tion three ounces roche alum to eleven pints of boiling water — Consulting Thomson’s chemistry respecting balsam
of Copaiba — From 5 to 5 3/4 read from page 309. to 354. volume iii. Bryant — In the evening did nothing but write the above of today —
having eaten 3 or 4 lumps of sugar which made me sickish afterwards wrote out the index to this volume from 29 December to the close of today. — Very fine, frosty day, but very cold — the roads quite
hard, as they have been these several days — Barometer 3 3/4 degrees below changeable Fahrenheit 22° at 9 1/4 p.m. — E..|. O.. Used the soap
lotion soon after I got back from Haughend and did not wash again just before dinner — Came upstairs at 10 1/2 —
Wednesday 15
8 50/60
11 40/60
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Masturbation just before getting up I have scarcely done it this year and half before and was cheering myself
the other day with the thought that my complaint had at least broken me of this vile habit the wish for it came over
me this morning in an instant and alas I could not or did not resist the temptation but it was done without
much encouragement of loose thought and I hope I shall do so no more how weak are we to resist temptation if
we do not flee from it in the beginning may the grace of heaven assist me — my aunt went with me into the
stable at 10 55/60 — Gave Hotspur some corn — Came in (upstairs) at 11 20/60 — wrote the above of today — Uncertain if it was
mastupration or as I have written it above turned to martial to see — Looking over Martial Epigrams
about 3/4 hour — vide liber 7. page 93. vide de fragmento Argus — From 12 1/2 to 5 3/4, read from page 354. to 439. end of volume 3.
Bryant and the 1st 145. ppages of volume 4 — In the evening read aloud from page 247. to 383. end of volume 1. Paley’s Evidences — the ground
thinly covered with snow when I got up this morning — snowy day, though the snow fell very gently — Barometer [illegible] 5 1/4 degrees below changeable
Fahrenheit 23° at 9. p.m. Fahrenheit 20° at 10 a.m. when the fire (in the hall) was well burnt up — Very cold all the day —
Felt the discharge about two and soon after used one syringe of alum lotion the cold just taken off with hot w
ater used another just warmed by standing on the eend plate ditto just before getting into bed I felt the
discharge between five and six and I think a little also about nine sused one syringe of cold soap lotion on getting
up this morning that I have washed four times today E.... O... the discharge is certainly less yellow more like simple whites
[margin text:] resume the alum lotion
Thursday 16
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11 40/60
Down to breakfast at 9 40/60 — went into the stable at 10 40/60 — Gave Hotspur corn in the stable — the ground thickly covered with snow, and it continuing
to snow gently all the morning — came in (upstairs) at 11 20/60 — From 11 1/2 to 6, (interrupted 20 minutes — by washing at five) ¬— read from page 146. to 401. volume 4 Bryant — Did nothing in the evening —
the day pretty fine from about noon — whistling wind in the evening — Barometer 5 degrees below changeable Fahrenheit 24° at 9. p.m. Fahrenheit 22 1/2° at 9 3/4 a.m. —
E… O. Only one of alum lotion in the morning but both before dinner and tonight had first a syringe of
cold water and then the alum lotion — only a drop or two oof discharge today and continues less yellow but the syringe brings aw
ay a good deal of whity slime in bits — Came upstairs at 10 35/60 —
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Out at 8 50/60. walked to and from Lidget — very slippery — fell once, and had very near done so 4 or 5 times — the ground thickly
covered with snow — very fatiguing walking — It snowed a little part of the way as I went along — got back at 9 55/60 — gave Hotspur
corn — Came in at 10 5/60 — and went down to breakfast at 10 1/4 — Read the 1st ppages of volume 1. Mrs. Montagu’s letters. Came upstairs at 11 20/60 — had to wait 1/4 hour before my room was
done — then wrote the last lines of yesterday and the above of today, and from 11 3/4 to 3 1/4 — read Genesis chapter 10 and the 5 following chapters — referred to
Herodotus ii. 36. and Larcher on this chapter and notes some others, [illegible] and read from page 401. to 473. end of volume 4 Bryant — From 3 1/4 to
6 (with 1/4 hour’s interruption) read the 66 first ppages of volume 5. In the evening read aloud the first 36 ppages volume 2. Paley’s evidences —
and then (about 8) John Oates came and staid till 9 — has brought good hops (of his tenant, and therefore favoured) at 6d [pence] per lb. [pound] — they cost the
man 5 1/2d [pence], and should be sold at 7d [pence] or 8d [pence] or 9d [pence] — good hops should look green, smell fragrant, and should be oily on being rubbed between
the fingers — John gives his cows ‘licking’ to each cow per day 1 lb. [pound] bean-meal, about as much sharps (bran) about 1/2 as much
malt-combs, all mixed up together with the addition of raw potatoes chopt – bean-meal 17/. [shillings] a load of stones
sharps 7d [pence] a bushel malt—combs 10d [pence] a bushel — snow-showers at intervals during the day — it was snowing when John came —
Barometer 5 1/4 degrees below changeable Fahrenheit 26° at 9. p.m. E... O.. It is certainly paler and thinner the washing brings away a good deal — felt the discharge between three and four and at the latter hour
washed one syringe of water and then one of alum lotion and have not felt the discharge since used only the alum
lotion in the morning but both at night — Came upstairs at 10 40/60 —
Saturday 18
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out at 8 50/60 — In the stable a few minutes walked to and from Lidget — got back at 9 55/60 — gave Hotspur corn, came in at 10 — down to breakfast at 10 10/60 —
Came upstairs at 11 1/4 — From 11 25/60 to 5 55/60, read from page 60 to 263. volume 5. Bryant — In the evening read aloud from page 36. to 105.
volume 2. Paley’s Evidences — E... O.. Felt the discharge soon after one and washed with water and alum lotion one syringe of each
at half past and I think I have felt no running since — Fine day — the sun out a little as I walked this morning —
but the ground thickly covered with snow — fatiguing walking and slippery Barometer 5 1/2 degrees below changeable Fahrenheit 26 1/2° at 9 p.m. —
During supper wrote the last 4 lines of today, and read from page 263. to 286. end of the mythology — Just as I was giving
felt the discharge a little again — Came upstairs at 10 35/60 —
Sunday 19
8
11 3/4
Ready to go out at 9, but loitered 1/4 hour looking at the last Edinburgh philosophical Journal etc. then went into the stable gave Hotspur corn —
my uncle and aunt staid at home in consequence of the cold, and being so slippery — I went to the new church — got there 6 or 7 minutes too soon —
Mr. Franks did all the duty, preached 28 minutes tolerably from Jeremiah xv.16. — walked there in 25 minutes and back in 23, and
got home at 12 55/60, our clock above 1/4 hour too soon — Mrs. Waterhouse told me Fahrenheit had been at 10° this morning out of
doors — ours in the hall (with a fire) stood at 20 1/2° at 9 1/2 a.m. — the coldest day this winter — As ssoon as I got
home washed as I was beginning to feel the discharge a little dressed and wrote the above of today, and from 1 50/60 to
3 1/4 read from page 289. to 325. volume 5. Bryant — went downstairs at 3 20/60 — my aunt and I read the evening service, and I read aloud
sermon 22. volume 1. my uncle’s collection — Came upstairs again at 5 1/2 — read from 328. to 336. v. Bryant — In the evening read aloud
from page 105. to 195. volume 2 Paley’s Evidences — Frosty, very cold day — rather thick in the afternoon — Barometer 3 1/2 degrees below changeable
Fahrenheit 21° at 9. p. m. — E... O. or I should say little or no appearance of any discharge today Came upstairs at 10 40/60
Monday 20
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out at 8 55/60 — walked to and from Lidget — gave Hotspur corn — 10 minutes with him in the stable — Came in at 10 10/60 — at
breakfast at 10 25/60 — Came upstairs at 11 25/60 — snowed all the time I was out — my uncle says Fahrenheit was 22 1/2° at 10 this morning —
Before I came upstairs read aloud several paragraphs from the last Yorkshire gazette among others the rules of the York philosophical society —
From 11 40/60 to 4 20/60 read very carefully from page 325. to 424. end of volume 5 Bryant — above an hour reading very carefully the Greek of acts xxvii — Washed at five which
took me ten minutes fancying I was beginning to feel the discharge very slightly — from 4 1/2 (before was looking into the Encyclopædia
for bufonitæ vide last page Bryant volume v. petrified teeth of the wolf-fish) to 5 55/60 read the 1st 26 ppages Bryant volume 6 — consulting maps makes me get on so slowly —
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