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as are calculated to excite laughter. I might say, that judgment
is the Ballast of the mind, and wit the Sails; and saying
which, if I have exemplified either, thou seest it is
Wit. But I see the further I should proceed on this topic
at present, the more I should be in danger of confounding
thy notions, my own being no more clear about it at present.
It has been a lie-abed-day with me; tho' not to
a degree utterly enormous, yet to a degree sufficient to make
me at once uncomfortable and stupid. It is a pain to me,
and much the same sort of pain to hold a set of ideas steadily in
my mind, as it is to hold a heavy body steadily in my hand.
I am just now principally employed in forming and putting together
a string of Definitions and Axioms, to prefix to the Comment on the Commenty. and serve as a standard
to which I may refer the incoherent effusions of "our Author."
Learn from me the baleful effects of [ not irresolution for they
mean two different things, and there is judgment
for you) but ] want
of resolution. A large proportion of my time, I am afraid and
ashamed to think how large) is unprofitably and unpleasurably
consumed for want of resolution to take that only recipe which can
ensure a tolerable set of sensations for the day, the bracing influence
of the morning air. 6 o'clock is the hour, after which,
if we continue a bed a moment, "we have done what we
"ought not to have done, and there is no health in us"
Dr Simmons believes — As to the end of it you know enough
of me to know I cannot do otherwise than strenuously approve of it.
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