[39] Doctrinam sacris literis Hebraice et Graece traditarn, solam animae salutarem et agnovit et sensit.  Omni opportunitate profitebatur disciplinam, quam Jesus Christus ore et vita expressit, unice tranquillitatem dare menti.  Semperque dixit amicis, pacem animi baud reperiundam, nisi in magno Mosis praecepto de sincere amore Dei et hominis bene observato.  Neque extra sacra monumenta uspiam inveniri, quod mentem serenet.  Deum pius adoravit, qui est.  Intelligere de Deo, unice, volebat id, quod Deus de se intelligit.  Eo contentus ultra nihil requisivit, ne idolatria erraret.  In voluntate Dei sic requiescebat, ut illius nullam omnino rationem indagandam putaret.  Hanc unice supremam omnium legem esse contendebat; deliberata constautia perfectissime colendam.  De aliis et seipso sentiebat:  ut quoties criminis reos ad poenas letales damnatos audiret, semper cogitaret, saspe diceret:  “Quis dixerat annon me sint melioresi Utique, si ipse melior, id non mihi auctori tribuendum esse, palam aio, confiteor; sed ita largienti Deo.”—­Orig.  Edit.

[40] This life first appeared in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1739, vol. ix. p. 176.  It, throughout, exhibits that ardent fondness for chemistry, which Johnson cherished, and that respect for physicians, which his numerous memoirs of members of that profession, and his attachment to Dr. Bathurst and the amiable and single-hearted Level, evinced.—­ED.

[41] This life was first printed in the Gentleman’s Magazine for the year 1740.

[42] The name of sir Henry Savil does not occur in the list of the wardens of Wadham college.

[43] From H. Norhone, B.D. his contemporary there.

[44] This life was first printed in the Gent.  Mag. for 1740, and Johnson’s unceasing abhorrence of Spanish encroachment and oppression is remarkable throughout.  See his London, and Idler, 81.—­Ed.

[45] This article was first printed in the Gentleman’s Magazine for 1740.  The proper spelling is Baratier.

[46] The passages referred to in the preceding pages we have printed in italics, for the more easy reference.

[47] Translated from an eloge by Fontenelle, and first printed in the Gentleman’s Magazine for 1741.

[48] The practice of Dr. Morin is forbidden, I believe, by every writer that has left rules for the preservation of health, and is directly opposite to that of Cornaro, who, by his regimen, repaired a broken constitution, and protracted his life, without any painful infirmities, or any decay of his intellectual abilities, to more than a hundred years; it is generally agreed that, as men advance in years, they ought to take lighter sustenance, and in less quantities; and reason seems easily to discover, that as the concoctive powers grow weaker, they ought to labour less.—­Orig.  Edit.

[49] This is an instance of the disposition generally found in writers of lives, to exalt every common occurrence and action into wonder.  Are not indexes daily written by men, who neither receive nor expect any loud applauses for their labours?—­Orig.  Edit.