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Routine of duties. April 24th 1820.
I rode on horseback this morning and then wrote my french exercise. After breakfast I got a french grammar lesson & read five of the fables on Wanostrchls recueil and then said it to Uncle Otway Barraud. I read 20 pages of Humes English history as I was in the middle of the reign of Edward I (for if I had have writen any notes upon it they would they would have been so unconnected I thought it better to wait until I began another reign) then after attending to the childrens lessons I worked until dinner after which I got geography.
Democracy one of the three forms of government. that in which the sovereign power is lodged in the body of the people.
Aristocracy. That form of government which places the supreme power in the nobles:—Monarchy. The government of a single person, kingdom, empire.—Despotism. Absolute power.
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