June 22. 1781. ALMIGHTY God, who art the giver of all good, enable me to remember, with due thankfulness, the comforts and advantages which I have enjoyed by the friendship of Henry Thrale, for whom, so far as is lawful, I humbly implore thy mercy in his present state. O Lord, since thou hast been pleased to call him from this world, look with mercy on those whom he has left; continue to succour me by such means as are best for me, and repay to his relations the kindness which I have received from him; pro. tect them in this world from temptations and calamities, and grant them happiness in the world to come, for Jesus Christ's sake. Amen. On leaving Mr. THRALE's Family. October 6. 1782. ALMIGHTY God, Father of all mercy, help me, by thy grace, that I may with humble and sincere thankfulness remember the comforts and conveniencies which I have enjoyed at this place, and that I may resign them with holy submission, equally trusting in thy protection when Thou givest and when Thou takest away. Have mercy upon me, O Lord, have mercy upon me. To thy fatherly protection, O Lord, I commend this family. Bless, guide, and defend them, that they may so pass through this world, as finally to enjoy in thy presence everlasting happiness, for Jesus Christ's sake. Amen. [The following Prayer was composed and used by Doctor Johnson previous to his receiving the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, on Sunday, December 5. 1784.] ALMIGHTY and most merciful Father, I am now, as to human eyes it seems, about to commemorate, for the * last time, the death of thy Son Jesus Christ our Saviour and Redeemer. Grant, O Lord, that my whole hope and confidence may be in his merits and thy mercy; enforce and accept my imperfect repentance; make this commemoration available to the confirmation of my faith, the establishment of my hope, and the enlargement of my charity; and make the death of thy Son Jesus Christ effectual to my redemption. Have mercy upon me, and pardon the multitude of my offences. Bless my friends; have mercy upon all men. Support me, by thy Holy Spirit, in the days of weakness, and at the hour of death; and receive me, at my death, to everlasting happiness, for the sake of Jesus Christ. Amen. He died the 13th following. INDE X. The Roman Numerals refer to the Volume, and the A. ABERBROTHICK, account of the town of, viii. 212. Of the ruins of the monastery there, 214. Aberdeen, account of, viii. 217. Dr. Johnson meets with an old acquaintance, Sir Alexander Gordon, there, 217. Account of the King's College, 219. Account of the Marischal College, 220. Account of the Library, 220. The course of education there, 221. Account of the English chapel, 222. Abilities, the reward of, to be accepted when offered, and not sought for in another place, exemplified in the story of Gelaleddin of Bassora, vii. 300. Abouzaid, the dying advice of Morad his father to him, vi. 289. Absence, a destroyer of friendship, vii. 89. Abyssinia, preface to the translation of Father Lobo's voyage to, ii. 265. Academical education, one of Milton's objections to it, ix. 89. Acastus, an instance of the commanding influence of curiosity, vi. 60. Achilles, his address to a Grecian prince supplicating life, improper for a picture, vii. 180. Action (dramatick), the laws of it stated and remarked, vi. 97. Action (exercise), necessary to the health of the body, and the vigour of the mind, v. 81. 87. The source of cheerfulness and vivacity, 86. Action (in oratory), the want of, considered, vii. 361. Tends to no good in any part of oratory, 362. Actions, every man the best relater of his own, vii. 259. injustice of judging of them by the event, iii. 218. The Adam unparadised, a MS. supposed to be the embryo of Paradise Lost, viii. 3. Adams, Parson, of Fielding, not Edward, but William Young, xi. 341. Addison, Joseph, supposed to have taken the plan of his Dialogues on Medals from Dryden's Essay on Dramatick Poetry, ix. 322. His life, x.74. Born at Milston, in Wiltshire, May 1. 1672, 74. Adventurer, No. xxxiv. iii. 109. No. 1. 135. No. xxxix. 116. No. xli. 123. No. lviii. 147. No. lxvii. 162. No. lxix. 170. No. lxxiv. No. lxxxv. 197. No. xcix. 218. No. cii. 225. No. xcv. 212. No. cviii. 238. No. cxx. 263. No. cxi. 244. No. cxv. 250. No. xlv. 129. No. Ixii. 155. 177. No. lxxxi. No. xcii. 203. No. cvii. 232. No. cxix. 257. 275. No. cxxxi. 282. No. cxxxvii. 288. No. cxxxviii. 295. Adversaries, the advantage of contending with illustrious ones, xii. 194. Adversity, a season fitted to convey the most salutary and useful instruction to the mind, vi. 58. The appointed instrument of promoting our virtue and happiness, 60.. Advertisements, on pompous and remarkable, vii. 160. Advice, good, too often disregarded, v. 97. The causes of this assigned, 98. Vanity often the apparent motive of giving it, 99. When most offensive and ineffectual, vi. 90.. Affability, the extensive influence of this amiable quality, vi. 2. Affectation, the vanity and folly of indulging it, iv. 131. 133. Wherein it properly differs from hypocrisy, 134. The great absurdity of it exposed in the character of Gelasimus, vi. 228. Afflictions, proper methods of obtaining consolation under them, iv. 113. 332. Inseparable from human life, vi. 268. The benefits of, 270. Africa, progress of the discoveries made on that coast by the Portuguese, ii. 217. Age, the present an age of authors, iii. 251. Agriculture, its extensive usefulness considered, vi. 28. Thoughts on, both ancient and modern, ii. 384. Productions of, alone sufficient for the support of an industrious people, 384. In high consideration in Egypt, 385. The many ancient writers on that subject, 388. The enrichment of England, 389. A proper subject for honorary rewards, 391. Superior to trade and manufactures, 392. Danger to be apprehended from the neglect of, 397. An art which government ought to protect, every proprietor of lands to practise, and every enquirer into nature to improve, 397. Account of, at Raasay, one of the Hebrides, viii. 279. Bad state of, at Ostig, in Sky, 301. The raising of the rents of estates in Scotland considered, 322. Ajut, his history, vi. 267. 276. Akenside, Dr. Mark, his opinion of Dyer's Fleece, xi. 277. His life, 357. Son of a butcher at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, born 1721. Designed for a dissenting minister, but turns his mind to physick, 357. Pleasures of Imagination published, 1744, 358. Studies at Leyden, and becomes M. D. 1744, 358. An enthusiastick friend to liberty; and a lover of contradiction, 359. Practises physick at Northampton and Hampstead, 360. Settles at London, 360. Allowed 300l. a year by Mr. Dyson, 360. By his writings obtains the name both of a wit and scholar, 361. Died 1770, 361. Character of his works, 362. Alabaster, Roxana, commended, ix. 87. |