Memoirs of Dr Robert Blakey

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER V. FROM 1840 TO 1844. After my libel affair was wound up, I commenced a weekly paper in London, called The Politician, but after the sixth number I gave it up. 1840. This year, in May, I left my native town and settled in London for a time. In the following year I went to France with my wife and...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER V. FROM 1840 TO 1844. After my libel affair was wound up, I commenced a weekly paper in London, called The Politician, but after the sixth number I gave it up. 1840. This year, in May, I left my native town and settled in London for a time. In the following year I went to France with my wife and family. Here I resolved to devote all my time and energies to philosophical literature. The extensive libraries in this country opened out what seemed to me a novel and inexhaustible field of knowledge and research. I stopped a few months at Boulogne, where there was a good library of thirty thousand volumes. I attended this library daily, leaving home early in the morning, and remaining as long as the establishment continued open. I soon began to increase my materials to a considerable extent; but the works on metaphysical science not being very numerous here, I thought it better to remove intoBelgium, where I should come into contact with many public libraries which had more of the scholastic or Middle Age literature than there was in this part of France. This kind of reading was indispensable to my plan of operations. 1842. In the middle of January this year I remoTed to Ostend, and obtained a furnished lodging there at nine francs per week. I went immediately to Bruges for the sake of the library, and found a splendid collection of books on the subjects I required. In April, however, my money was pearly exhausted. I set out for England, with a view to seek some little pecuniary aid from some of my former friends; and after about a fortnight's absence I returned, and brought with me about 5D/., which I had obtained without much solicitation. This inspired me with additional vigour and zeal in the prosecution of my literary project. I visited and remained some ...