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'Reynolds used to say that "the pupil in art who looks for the Sunday with pleasure as an idle day will never make a painter." Northcote's Reynolds, i. 119. 'Dr. Johnson, said Lord Eldon, 'sent me a message on his death-bed, to request that I would attend public worship every Sunday. Twiss's Eldon, i. 168.
I resolved that I never would attend another report, without having read and duly considered the whole of the evidence of each case, and I never did. Twiss's Eldon, i. 398. Under-Secretary of State and a member of the Literary Club. Ante, i. 478. Dodd for the last time. He was in exactly such a temper as I wished.
It is not fair to the clergymen to have it known he wrote them. Twiss's Eldon, iii. 286. Johnson, we may be sure, had no copy of any of his sermons. That none of them should be known but those he wrote for Taylor is strange. Croker maintains in a note on this passage. I believe he was speaking of his translation of Courayer's Life of Paul Sarpi. Ante, i. 135.
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