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  May 7, 1845.--I am now fairly settled. Let me see how I will
arrange my plans for study and business. Read Greenleaf's "Evi-
dence" and Story's "Agency" so as to finish them both in six
weeks. Read a chapter in the Testament (German); one case a
week in Smith's "Leading Cases" touching some topic of
"Agency" or "Evidence." Read a little Bacon and Burke; study
Livy an hour in the morning, and logic at night. Poetry and light
literature Sunday. Attend church regularly, and do all my busi-
ness promptly.
  Now, of so much, some must many days be neglected. The
order of preference shall be Latin, Evidence, Agency, German,
Bacon, Logic, Burke, Smith's cases. Business first always.