Friday, 22.--At the desire of some of my friends, I accompanied them to the British
Museum. What an immense field is here for curiosity to range in! One large room is filled
from top to bottom with things brought from Otaheite; two or three more with things dug
out of the ruins of Herculaneum! Seven huge apartments are filled with curious books; five
with manuscripts; two with fossils of all sorts, and the rest with various animals. But what
account will a man give to the judge of quick and dead for a life spent in collecting all these?
The Journal of John Wesley
The Journal of John Wesley
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