country; and that on the ruins of the common law of England should be erected the infamous fabric of Scottish persecution. ...  If that day should ever arrive, if the tyrannical laws of Scotland should ever be introduced in opposition to the humane laws of England, it would then be high time for my hon. friends and myself to settle our affairs, and retire to some happier clime, where we might at least enjoy those rights which God has given to man, and which his nature tells him he has a right to demand.’ Parl.  Hist. xxx. 1563.  For Unitarians, see ante, ii. 408, note I.

[402] Taken from Herodotus. [Bk. ii. ch. 104.] BOSWELL.

[403] ‘The mummies,’ says Blakesley, ’have straight hair, and in the paintings the Egyptians are represented as red, not black.’ Ib. note.

[404] See ante, i. 441, and post, March 28, and June 3, 1782.

[405] Mr. Dawkins visited Palmyra in 1751.  He had ’an escort of the Aga of Hassia’s best Arab horsemen.’  Johnson was perhaps astonished at the size of their caravan, ‘which was increased to about 200 persons.’  The writer treats the whole matter with great brevity.  Wood’s Ruins of Palmyra, p. 33.  On their return the travellers discovered a party of Arab horsemen, who gave them an alarm.  Happily these Arabs were still more afraid of them, and were at once plundered by the escort, ’who laughed at our remonstrances against their injustice.’  Wood’s Ruins of Balbec, p. 2.

[406] He wrote a Life of Watts, which Johnson quoted. Works, viii. 382.

[407] See ante, iii. 422, note 6.

[408] In the first two editions formal.

[409] Johnson maintains this in The Idler, No. 74.  ‘Few,’ he says, ’have reason to complain of nature as unkindly sparing of the gifts of memory ...  The true art of memory is the art of attention.’  See ante, iii. 191.

[410]The first of the definitions given by Johnson of to remember is to bear in mind anything; not to forget.  To recollect he defines to recover to memory.  We may, perhaps, assume that Boswell said, ’I did not recollect that the chair was broken;’ and that Johnson replied, ’you mean, you did not remember.  That you did not remember is your own fault.  It was in your mind that it was broken, and therefore you ought to have remembered it.  It was not a case of recollecting; for we recollect, that is, recover to memory, what is not in our mind.’  In the passage ante, i. 112, which begins, ‘I indeed doubt if he could have remembered,’ we find in the first two editions not remembered, but recollected.  Perhaps this change is due to euphony, as collected comes a few lines before.  Horace Walpole, in one of his Letters (i. 15), distinguishes the two words, on his revisiting his old school, Eton:—­’By the way, the clock strikes the old cracked sound—­I recollect so much, and remember so little.’