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 Sunday, Nov. 21. About noon I again visited him ; found him rather better and easier, his spirits more raised, and his conversation more disposed to general subjects. When I came in, he asked if I had done what he desired (meaning the noting down what passed the night before) ; and upon my saying that I had, he pressed my hand and said earnestly, 'Thank you.' Our discourse then grew more cheerful. He told me, with apparent pleasure, that he heard the Empress of Russia had ordered The Rambler to be translated into the Russian lan guage, and that a copy would be sent him x.

Before we parted, he put into my hands a little book, by Fleetwood, on the Sacrament 2, which he told me he had been the means of introducing to the University of Oxford by recommending it to a young student there.

Monday, Nov. 22. Visited the Doctor : found him seemingly better of his complaints, but extremely low and dejected. I sat by him till he fell asleep, and soon after left him, as he seemed little disposed to talk; and, on my going away, he said, em phatically, ' I am very poorly indeed ! '

Tuesday, Nov. 23. Called about eleven : the Doctor not up : Mrs. Gardiner 3 in the dining-room : the Doctor soon came to us, and seemed more cheerful than the day before. He spoke of his design to invite a Mrs. Hall 4 to be with him, and to offer her

1 He had beeil misinformed. Life, Customs and Ancient Laws of 'Russia,

iv. 277. An anonymous correspondent p. 222.

from St. Petersburg informs me that 2 The Reasonable Communicant, 'a very complete condensation of by W. Fleetwood, D.D., late Lord Boswell's Johnson was published in Bishop of Ely, 1704. Fleetwood was Russian by a distinguished critic, born in 1656 and died in 1723. The Drujinine, in 1851 and 1852. It has following passage in this work is been republished in his complete opposed to the common opinion of works, 1865, and is included in the the heavy breakfasts of our fore- first 245 close - printed pages of fathers : ' I do not suppose that any vol. iv.' one makes a full meal in the morn-

The Wealth of Nations was trans- ing, that is not going to strong

lated into Russian nineteen years Labour, much less upon Sunday?

after Johnson's death, and at once l6th ed. 1748, p. 77.

raised the question of * the relative 3 Ante, i. 80.

advantages of free and servile labour 4 John Wesley's sister. Life, iv.

in agriculture.' Kovalevsky's Modern 92.

L 2 Mrs.

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