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It was
the chief engineer of the War
Department that McKinley called
"our mapmaker." It was, he say...

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Up betimes, and studying of my double horizontal diall against Dean Honiwood comes to me, who dotes mightily upon it, and I think I must give it him.
So after talking with Sir W. Batten, who is this morning gone to Guildhall to his trial with Field, I to my office, and there read all the morning in my statute-book, consulting among others the statute against selling of of...


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It was
not the best of times, nor was it the worst of times,
for those of us still here have not yet outlived it.
Rather, it was the unproven wilderness of the in-
between. Nor could one say, without flinching,
that it was the age of wisdom. There was much
foolishness, and it was the epoch of disbelief.
It was the season of waning light, the season
of quickly encr...

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Up and by water to White Hall and so to St. James’s, to Mr. Coventry; where I had an hour’s private talk with him. Most of it was discourse concerning his own condition, at present being under the censure of the House, being concerned with others in the Bill for selling of offices. He tells me, that though he thinks himself to suffer much in his fame hereby, yet he values not...


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Strongman

Begun again to rise betimes by 4 o’clock, and made an end of “The Adventures of Five Houres,” and it is a most excellent play.
So to my office, where a while and then about several businesses, in my way to my brother’s, where I dined (being invited) with Mr. Peter and Dean Honiwood, where Tom did give us a very pretty dinner, and we very pleasant, but not very merry, the ...


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