Wednesday, August 12, 2009

The Reading Wesley

1767 Wed 12 Aug. I took coach. The next day we reached Grantham, and London about seven on Friday evening, having run that day an hundred and ten miles. On the road, I read over Seller’s History of Palmyra and Norden’s Travels into Egypt and Abyssinia—two as dry and unsatisfying books as ever I read in my life.