Identifier: selectionsfromwo00john (find matches)
Title: Selections from the works of Samuel Johnson;
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 Osgood, Charles Grosvenor, 1871-1964
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Publisher: New York, H. Holt and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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It is vain to look round and round for that help which
cannot be had. Yet we hope and hope, and fancy that
he who has lived to-day may live to-morrow. But let 15
us learn to derive our hope only from God.
In the meantime let us be kind to one another. I
have no friend now living but you and Mr. Hector, that
was the friend of my youth. Do not neglect,
dear Sir, Yours affectionately, 20
SAM. JOHNSON.
London, Easter Monday,
April 12, 1784.

TO MISS JANE LANGTON, ROCHESTER.

My Dearest Miss Jenny:
I am sorry that your pretty letter has been so long 25
without being answered; but, when I am not pretty
well, I do not always write plain enough for young
ladies. I am glad, my dear, to see that you write so
well, and hope that you mind your pen, your book, and
your needle, for they are all necessary. Your books 30
will give you knowledge, and make you respected; and
your needle will find you useful employment when you
do not care to read. When you are a little older, I
hope you will be very diligent in learning arithmetic,

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Johnson, as described in Boswell's Tour, drawn and etched by Trotter.
' He wore,' says Boswell,' a full suit of plain brown clothes, with
twisted hair-buttons of the same color, a large bushy, grayish wig,
a plain shirt, black worsted stockings, and silver buckles. Upon this
tour, when journeying, he wore boots, and a very wide brown cloth
great-coat, with pockets which might have almost held the two volumes
of his folio Dictionary , and he carried in his hand a large English
oak stick.' On the journey the stick was lost.

LETTERS 389

and, above all, that through your whole life you will
carefully say your prayers, and read your Bible.
I am, my dear,
Your most humble servant,
5 SAM. JOHNSON.
May 10, 1784.

TO MRS. THRALE
London, July 8, 1784.

Dear Madam: What you have done, however I may lament it, I
10 have no pretence to resent, as it has not been injurious
to me; I therefore breathe out one sigh more of tender-
ness, perhaps useless, but at least sincere.
I wish that God may grant you every blessing, that

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