One of its charms is a constant good humour and complacency; not a sign is visible that the writer is pressed for time, or wants to get his performance out of hand; but, on the contrary, a calm lingering over details, sprightly asides in the notes, which the least hurry would have suppressed or passed by, and a general impression conveyed of thorough enjoyment in the immensity of the labour.
FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 10: The most remarkable instance of all is the case of Newton, who, according to Dr.Whewell, resided in Trinity College "for thirty-five years without the interruption of a month."-- _Hist.

of the Inductive Sciences_, vol.ii.book vii.] One would have liked to see this elaboration more clearly, to have been allowed a glimpse into his workshop while he was so engaged.
Unfortunately the editor of his journals has selected the relatively unimportant records of his earlier studies, and left us in the dark as regards this far more interesting period.

He was such an indefatigable diarist that it is unlikely that he neglected to keep a journal in this crisis of his studies.

But it has not been published, and it may have been destroyed.

All that we have is this short paragraph in his Memoirs:-- "The classics, as low as Tacitus and the younger Pliny and Juvenal, were my old and familiar companions.