...e fishing or philosophy, that he should find the struggle of his choice pretty severe. Lady Davy was unwell, and when I was there before, she was out, so I have not yet seen the lady of whom Mad. de Stael said, that she has all Corinne's talents without her faults or extravagances. After breakfast Sir Humphry took me to the Royal Institution, where he used to lecture before he married a woman of f...