71/120 Ask Mama and Selina if they do not now admit my argument with regard to the superior advantages of the Scotch over the English peasantry. On Monday, the day on which the examination subjects are given out, I shall begin. My first performance will be my verses and my declamation. I shall then translate the Greek and Latin. The first time of going over I shall mark the passages which puzzle me, and then return to them again. |