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and patches of time which every day produces and which
most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make
at the end of it no small deduction from the life of
man."
The following extracts are copied from these journals or
registers of his study :
1836.
July. Read Spence's Britain Independent of Commerce, 1808.
Mill's Commerce defended. Spence's reply to Mill, entitled,
uiture, the Source of Wealth, 1808. Bentham's Defence of
Usury.
August Edinburgh and Powers of the Human Mind.
Quarterly Reviews. Reid on the
September. Lyell's Geology. Ricardo's Political Economy.
November. Third Report of the Commission of Inquiry into
the State of the Poor in Ireland. Burns on the Poor of Scotland.
Page on the English Poor Laws. Report of Commissioners of
Inquiry into the State of the English Poor. Poor Laws in Ireland,
by J. Richman. C. Poulet Scrope. Plan of a Poor Law
for Ireland. Appeal on behalf of the Poor, by H. M'Cormac,
M. n. Plan for relief of the unemployed Poor by the same. Poor
Laws in Ireland, by Sir John Walsh, 1830.
December. Appendix to Third Report of Commissioners for
Inquiry into state of the Poor in Ireland, so far as relates to the
Charitable Institutions of Dublin. Report of Commissioners of
Inquiry into state of Joint Stock Banks. Harris on Lightning
Conductors to Ships. Quarterly Review, CVI. Poor Laws, p.
473. Heiderman, by Cooper, pp. 400. Some of Csesar's Com-
iii- utaries. Part of Dupin's Ecclesiastical History. Part of
Moshcim's Ecclesiastical History.
1837.
January. Read Grattan's Miscellaneous Works ;
London, 1822,
pp. 388.
P. 75. In the petition to His Majesty we find the simil\ " So
in the great works of Nature and in the rivers that bring fertility
along with them, we find irregularity and deluge. Shall we
therefore pronounce the Shannon a nuisance 1 "
P. 120. Thia is with a little variation repeated in the " Answer
to Lord Clare." " In great moral operations as well as in the great
operations of Nature there is always a degree of waste and overflow.
So it is with the sea. Shall we therefore pronounce the ocean a
nuiaance 1 "
P. 76. In the petition to His Majesty we "
find. We say if
we consider that the people so exiled, so impoverished, so plundered,
o persecuted, BO enslaved, so
disfranchised, did at last
spontaneously