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Numerous carriages stood at the door, several lackeys in rich liveries were sitting in the ante- chamber. In the vast drawing-room, around two tables and lamps, sat ladies and young girls, in costly garments, dressing small dolls; and there were several young men there also, hovering about the ladies. The dolls prepared by these ladies were to be drawn in a lottery for the poor.
Smith observed to me not long before his death, that after all his practice in writing he composed as slowly, and with as great difficulty as at first. He added at the same time that Mr. Hume had acquired so great a facility in this respect, that the last volumes of his History were printed from his original copy, with a few marginal corrections. See ante, iii. 437 and iv. 12.
'Twas while I was running an ice factory down there, after I unloaded that silver mine I had in Colorado. I had what they called a 'conditional concession. They made me put up a thousand dollars cash forfeit that I would make ice continuously for six months. If I did that I could draw down my ante. If I failed to do so the government took the pot.
'The introducing of new doctrines, said Bacon, 'is an affectation of tyranny over the understandings and beliefs of men. Bacon's Nat. Hist., Experiment 1000. 'We must own, said Johnson, 'that neither a dull boy, nor an idle boy, will do so well at a great school as at a private one. Boswell's Hebrides, Aug. 22, 1773. See ante, under Dec. 5, 1775.
In Farquhar's Beaux-Stratagem, Scrub thus describes his duties: 'Of a Monday I drive the coach, of a Tuesday I drive the plough, on Wednesday I follow the hounds, a Thursday I dun the tenants, on Friday I go to market, on Saturday I draw warrants, and a Sunday I draw beer. Act iii. sc. 3. See ante, i. 393, note 1. See post, April 10, 1778, and April 24, 1779. See ante, i. 216, note 2.
See ante, i. 446, for Johnson's remedies against melancholy.
Bear always in mind Christ's words, 'Vae vobis scribae et Pharisae hypocrite qui clauditis regnum coelorum ante homines; vos non intratis, nec introeunts sinitis intrare! This means, 'Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, who close to men the Kingdom of God, and neither enter nor allow others to enter!
Boswell is here quoting the Preface to the third edition of his Corsica: 'Whatever clouds may overcast my days, I can now walk here among the rocks and woods of my ancestors, with an agreeable consciousness that I have done something worthy. See ante, i. 148, and post, Nov. 21.
'Your affectionate humble servant, 'Jan. 15, 1774. 'To the Reverend Dr. Taylor, 'in Ashbourn, 'Derbyshire. Johnson speaking of this tour on April 10, 1783, said: 'I got an acquisition of more ideas by it than by anything that I remember. Ante, iv. 199. See ante, p. 48. See ante, i. 408, 443, note 2, and ii. 303.
The dwellings were generally divided into two apartments; one a sort of ante room and receptacle of house-keeping goods, and the other the place of residence. Pots, kettles, knives, and wooden pans were the principal articles of household use I discovered. At the storehouses there were several fish-baskets of birch or willow twigs.
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