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1773[1]. Inchoavi lectionem Pentateuchi—Finivi lectionem Conf. Fab. Burdonum[2].—Legi primum actum Troadum[3].—Legi Dissertationem Clerici postremam de Pent.[4]—2 of Clark's Sermons.—L. Appolonii pugnam Betriciam[5].—L. centum versus Homeri.
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Almighty God, merciful Father, who hatest nothing that thou hast made, but wouldest that all should be saved, have mercy upon me. As thou hast extended my Life, encrease my strength, direct my purposes, and confirm my resolution, that I may truly serve Thee, and perform the duties which Thou shalt allot me.
Relieve, O gracious Lord, according to thy mercy the pains and distempers of my Body, and appease the tumults of my Mind. Let my Faith and Obedience encrease as my life advances, and let the approach of Death incite my desire to please Thee, and invigorate my diligence in good works, till at last, when Thou shalt call me to another state, I shall lie down in humble hope, supported by thy Holy Spirit, and be received to everlasting happiness, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
The beginning, &c.[6]
I hope
To read the Gospels before Easter.
- ↑ 'These notes of his studies appear on different days in his manuscript diary of this year.' Life, ii. 263.
- ↑ Accurata Burdonum [i. e. Scaligerorum] Fabulae Confutatio. Brit. Mus. Catalogue (auctore I. R.). Lugduni Batavorum. Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium MDCXVII.
- ↑ For Johnson's study of Euripides, see Life, i. 70, 72; iv. 311.
- ↑ 'Johnson. I should recommend Dr. Clarke's sermons, were he orthodox. However it is very well known where he was not orthodox, which was upon the doctrine of the Trinity, as to which he is a condemned heretik.' Ib. iii. 248, and ante, p. 38, n. 4.
- ↑ The Rev. H. E. D. Blakiston of Trinity College, Oxford, informs me that in the second book of Apollonius's Argonautica there is the fight of Polydeuces with Amycus, King of the Bebryces, which Johnson might have latinised as pugna Bebrycia or Bebricia, misprinted Betricia.
- ↑ Ante, p. 42, n. i.
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