[799] ’In more fruitful countries the removal of one only makes room for the succession of another; but in the Hebrides the loss of an inhabitant leaves a lasting vacuity; for nobody born in any other parts of the world will choose this country for his residence.’  Johnson’s Works, ix. 93.

[800] ’In 1628 Daille wrote his celebrated book, De l’usage des Peres, or Of the Use of the Fathers.  Dr. Fleetwood, Bishop of Ely, said of it that he thought the author had pretty sufficiently proved they were of no use at all.’  Chalmers’s Biog.  Dict. xi. 209.

[801] Enquiry after Happiness, by Richard Lucas, D.D., 1685.

[802] Divine Dialogues, by Henry More, D.D.  See ante, ii. 162, note I.

[803] By David Gregory, the second of the sixteen professors which the family of Gregory gave to the Universities. Ante, p. 48.

[804] ‘Johnson’s landlord and next neighbour in Bolt-court.’ Ante, iii. 141.

[805] ’Cuper’s Gardens, near the south bank of the Thames, opposite to Somerset House.  The gardens were illuminated, and the company entertained by a band of music and fireworks; but this, with other places of the same kind, has been lately discontinued by an act that has reduced the number of these seats of luxury and dissipation.’  Dodsley’s London and its Environs, ed. 1761, ii. 209.  The Act was the 25th George II, for ’preventing robberies and regulating places of public entertainment.’ Parl.  Hist. xiv. 1234.

[806] ‘Mr. Johnson,’ according to Mr. Langton, ’used to laugh at a passage in Carte’s Life of the Duke of Ormond, where he gravely observes “that he was always in full dress when he went to court; too many being in the practice of going thither with double lapells."’ Boswelliana, p. 274.  The following is the passage:—­’No severity of weather or condition of health served him for a reason of not observing that decorum of dress which he thought a point of respect to persons and places.  In winter time people were allowed to come to court with double-breasted coats, a sort of undress.  The duke would never take advantage of that indulgence; but let it be never so cold, he always came in his proper habit, and indeed the king himself always did the same, though too many neglected his example to make use of the liberty he was pleased to allow.’  Carte’s Life of Ormond, iv. 693.  See ante, i. 42.  It was originally published in three volumes folio in 1735-6.

[807] Seneca’s two epigrams on Corsica are quoted in Boswell’s Corsica, first edition, p. 13.  Boswell, in one of his Hypochondriacks (London Mag. 1778, p. 173), says:—­’For Seneca I have a double reverence, both for his own worth, and because he was the heathen sage whom my grandfather constantly studied.’