[1202] Mrs. Thrale’s Collection, March 10,1784.  Vol. ii. p. 350.  BOSWELL.

[1203] Hawkins’s Life of Johnson, p. 583.

[1204] See what he said to Mr. Malone, p. 53 of this volume.  BOSWELL.

[1205] See ante, i. 223, note 2.

[1206] Epistle to the Romans, vii. 23.

[1207] ‘Johnson’s passions,’ wrote Reynolds, ’were like those of other men, the difference only lay in his keeping a stricter watch over himself.  In petty circumstances this [? his] wayward disposition appeared, but in greater things he thought it worth while to summon his recollection and be always on his guard.... [To them that loved him not] as rough as winter; to those who sought his love as mild as summer—­many instances will readily occur to those who knew him intimately of the guard which he endeavoured always to keep over himself.’  Taylor’s Reynolds, ii. 460.  See ante, i. 94, 164, 201, and iv. 215.

[1208] Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, 3d ed. p. 209. [Post, v. 211.] On the same subject, in his Letter to Mrs. Thrale, dated Nov. 29, 1783, he makes the following just observation:—­’Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.  The mind is enlarged and elevated by mere purposes, though they end as they began [in the original, begin], by airy contemplation.  We compare and judge, though we do not practise.’  BOSWELL.

[1209] Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, p. 374. [Post, v. 359.] BOSWELL.

[1210] Psalm xix. 13.

[1211] Pr. and Med. p.47.  BOSWELL.

[1212] Ib. p. 68 BOSWELL

[1213] Ib. p. 84 BOSWELL

[1214] Ib. p. 120.  BOSWELL.

[1215] Pr. and Med. p. 130.  BOSWELL.

[1216] Dr. Johnson related, with very earnest approbation, a story of a gentleman, who, in an impulse of passion, overcame the virtue of a young woman.  When she said to him, ‘I am afraid we have done wrong!’ he answered, ’Yes, we have done wrong;—­for I would not debauch her mind.’  BOSWELL.

[1217] St. John, viii. 7.

[1218] Pr. and Med. p. 192.  BOSWELL.

[1219] See ante, iii. 155.

[1220] Boswell, on Feb. 10, 1791, describing to Malone the progress of his book, says:—­’I have now before me p. 488 [of vol. ii.] in print; and 923 pages of the copy [MS.] only is exhausted, and there remains 80, besides the death; as to which I shall be concise, though solemn.  Pray how shall I wind up?  Shall I give the character from my Tour somewhat enlarged?’ Croker’s Boswell, p. 829.  Mr. Croker is clearly in error in saying (ib. p. 800) that ’Mr. Boswell’s absence and the jealousy between him and some of Johnson’s other friends prevented his being able to give the particulars which he (Mr. Croker) has supplied in the Appendix.’  In this Appendix is Mr. Hoole’s narrative which Boswell had seen and used (post, p. 406).