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. I insensibly
plunged into the ocean of the Augustan history, and in the
descending series I investigated, with my pen almost always
in my hand, the original records, both Greek and Latin, from
Dion Cassius to Ammianus Marcellinus, from the reign of
Trajan to the last age of the Western Caesars.
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