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 PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS

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Oct. 1729. Desidiae valedixi ; syrenis istius cantibus surdam posthac aurem obversurus r.

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1729, Dec. S. J. Oxonio rediit 2.

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1732, Julii 15. Undecim aureos deposui, quo die quicquid ante matris funus (quod serum sit precor) de paternis bonis sperari licet, viginti scilicet libras, accepi. Usque adeo mihi fortuna fingenda est. Interea, ne paupertate vires animi lan- guescant, nee in flagitia egestas abigat, cavendum 3.


 * Z*/>,i.74. 'I bid fare well to Sloth, hart's Scott, ed. 1839, viii. 275,382.

being resolved henceforth not to ' " Leisure and I," said Wesley,

listen to her syren strains.' ' Vitanda " have taken leave of one another." '

est improba Siren Desidia.' HORACE, Southey's Wesley, ed. 1846, ii. 383. 2 Satires, iii. 14. Sir Walter Scott, 2 Hawkins's Johnson, p. 16. For

early in his struggles with his load of Johnson's departure from Oxford, see

debt, has this saying of Johnson's in Life, i. 78, n. 2. mind. On March 2, 1826, he re- 3 Life, i. 80. 'I layed by eleven

cords : ' I would have given some- guineas on this day, when I received

thing to have lain still this morning twenty pounds, being all that I have

and made up for lost time. But reason to hope for out of my father's

desidiae valedixi ' ; and on July 17: effects, previous to the death of my

' Desidiae tandem x valedixi.' Lock- mother ; an event which I pray GOD

1 In the Journal of Sir Walter Scott, ed. 1891, p. 228, not tandem but longutn. Lockhart, I have observed, not unfrequently tacitly corrected Scott, especially in his misuse of will for shall.

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