[20] The Peace of Amiens was not signed till March 27, 1802. But the general rejoicings were on the conclusion of the Preliminary Articles on October 1, 1801.
[21] The battle was fought on the twenty-first.
[22] Prefatory Memoir.
[23] Prefatory Memoir,
[24] I remember how, at the age of eight, I was myself set for a short time to teach some still smaller children to read. The book we used was Mrs. Barbauld’s “Early Lessons.” We came to the word mezereon. I was ashamed to own that I did not know how it was pronounced. With great gravity I informed my class that this was a word that no one knew how to read. So far as I can remember there was no doubting Thomas present.
[25] For many years he was engaged to give private lessons in mathematics to some of the boys in the Grammar School. Among his pupils were Dr. Kennedy, the Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge, and Dr. Guest, the Master of Caius College, Cambridge.
[26] “I shall never forget the joy I felt on taking the first spark from the prime conductor.”—Rowland Hill’s Journal.
[27] Prefatory Memoir.
[28] See Appendix A.
[29] See Appendix A.