weak and sinful as herself, to remember those faults which, we trust, Eternal Purity has pardoned.

Let us, therefore, preserve her memory for no other end but to imitate her virtues; and let us add her example to the motives to piety which this solemnity was, secondly, instituted to enforce.

It would not, indeed, be reasonable to expect, did we not know the inattention and perverseness of mankind, that any one who had followed a funeral, could fail to return home without new resolutions of a holy life: for, who can see the final period of all human schemes and undertakings, without conviction of the vanity of all that terminates in the present state? For, who can see the wise, the brave, the powerful, or the beauteous, carried to the grave, without reflection on the emptiness of all those distinctious, which set us here in opposition to each other? And who, when he sees the vanity of all terrestrial advantages, can forbear to wish for a more permanent and certain happiness? Such wishes, perhaps, often arise, and such resolu tions are often formed; but, before the resolution can be exerted, before the wish can regulate the conduct, new prospects open before us, new impressions are received; the temptations of the world solicit, the passions of the heart are put into commotion; we plunge again into the tumult, engage again in the contest, and forget that what we gain cannot be kept, and that the life, for which we are thus busy to provide, must be quickly at an end.

But, let us not be thus shamefully deluded! Let us not thus idly perish in our folly, by neglecting the loudest call of providence; nor, when we have followed our friends, and our enemies to the tomb, suffer ourselves to be surprised by the dreadful summons, and die, at last, amazed, and unprepared! Let every one whose eye glances on this bier, examine what would have been his condition, if the same hour had called him to judgment, and remember, that, though he is now spared, he may, perhaps, be to-morrow among separate spirits. The present moment is in our power: let us, therefore, from the present

moment, begin our repentance! Let us not, any longer, harden our hearts, but hear, this day, the voice of our Saviour and our God, and begin to do, with all our powers, whatever we shall wish to have done, when the grave shall open before us! Let those, who came hither weeping and lamenting, reflect, that they have not time for useless sorrow; that their own salvation is to be secured, and that "the day is far spent, and the night cometh, when no man can work ;" that tears are of no value to the dead, and that their own danger may justly claim their whole attention! Let those who entered this place unaffected and indifferent, and whose only purpose was to behold this funeral spectacle, consider, that she, whom they thus behold with negligence, and pass by, was lately partaker of the same nature with themselves; and that they likewise are hastening to their end, and must soon, by others equally negligent, be buried and forgotten! Let all remember, that the day of life is short, and that the day of grace may be much shorter; that this may be the last warning which God will grant us, and that, perhaps, he, who looks on this grave unalarmed, may sink unreformed into his own.

Let it, therefore, be our care, when we retire from this solemnity, that we immediately turn from our wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right; that, whenever disease, or violence, shall dissolve our bodies, our souls may be saved alive, and received into everlasting habitations; where, with angels and archangels, and all the glorious host of heaven, they shall sing glory to God on high, and the Lamb, for ever and ever.

END OF VOL. IX.

INDEX

TO THE

WORKS OF DR. JOHNSON.

N. B. The Roman numerals refer to the volume, and the figures to the page.

ABERBROTHICK, account of the town of, ix. 7. of the ruins of the monas-
tery there, 8.

Aberdeen, account of, i. 328. ix. 10. account of the king's college, ix. 11. ac-
count of the marischal college, 12. the course of education there, 13. account
of the English chapel, 14.

Abilities, the reward of, to be accepted when offered, and not sought for in an-
other place, exemplified in the story of Gelaleddin of Bassora, iv. 384.
Abouzaid, the dying advice of Morad his father to him, iii. 190.

Abridgments of books, remarks on, v. 461.

Absence, a destroyer of friendship, iv. 216.

Abyssinia, preface to the translation of father Lobo's voyage to, v. 255.
Academical education, one of Milton's objections to it, vii. 69.

Acastus, an instance of the commanding influence of curiosity, iii. 212.

Achilles, his address to a Grecian prince supplicating life, improper for a pic-
ture, iv. 283.

Action, (dramatick,) the laws of it stated and remarked, iii. 240.

(exercise,) necessary to the health of the body, and the vigour of the
mind, ii. 398. the source of cheerfulness and vivacity, 399.

Action, (in oratory,) the want of, considered, iv. 414. tends to no good in any
part of oratory, 415.

Actions, every man the best relater of his own, iv. 341. the injustice of judging
of them by the event, iv. 84.

Adam unparadised, a manuscript, supposed to be the embryo of Paradise Lost,
v. 269.

Adams, parson, of Fielding, not Edward, but William Young, viii. 456.
Addison, Joseph, supposed to have taken the plan of his dialogues on inedals
from Dryden's essay on dramatick poetry, vii. 251. his life, vii. 418. the va-
rious schools at which he received instruction, ibid. cultivates an early friend-
ship with Steele, 419. lends a hundred pounds to Steele, and reclaims it by an
execution, 420. entered at Oxford, 1687, 420. account of his Latin poems, 421.
account of his English poems, ibid. on being introduced by Congreve to Mr.
Montague, becomes a courtier, 422. obtains a pension of three hundred a year,
that he might be enabled to travel, 423. publishes his travels, 424. succeeds
Mr. Locke as commissioner of appeals, as a reward for his poem, the Battle
of Blenheim, 425. went to Hanover with lord Halifax, ibid. made under-
secretary of state, ibid. writes the opera of Rosamond, ibid. assists Steele in
writing the Tender Husband, ibid. goes to Ireland with lord Wharton as se-
cretary, 426. made keeper of the records in Birmingham's tower, ibid. the
opposite characters of him and Wharton, ibid. his reason for resolving not to
remit any fees to his friends, ibid. wrote in the Tatler, 427. wrote in the

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Spectators, ibid. his tragedy of Cato brought on the stage, and supported both
by the whigs and tories, 432, 434. Cato warmly attacked by Dennis, 434. ob-
servations on his tragedy of Cato, 435. other honours and enmities showed to
Cato, ibid. Cato translated both into Italian and Latin, 436. writes in the
Guardian, ibid. his signature in the Spectator and Guardian, 437. declared
by Steele to have been the author of the Drummer, ibid. wrote several poli-
tical pamphlets, ibid. appointed secretary to the regency, 439. in 1715 pub-
lishes the Freeholder, ibid. marries the countess of Warwick, 440. secretary
of state, 1717, but unfit for the place, and therefore resigns it, 441. purposes
writing a tragedy on the Death of Socrates, ibid. engages in his defence of
the christian religion, ibid. had a design of writing an English dictionary,
442. his controversy with Steele on the peerage bill, ibid. during his last
illness sends for Gay, informs him that he had injured him, and promises, if
he recovered, to recompense him, 445. sends for the young earl of Warwick,
that he might see how a christian ought to die, ibid. died June 17, 1719,
446. his character, ibid. the course of his familiar day, 449. his literary cha-
racter, 450. account of his works, 451. extracts from Dennis's Observations
on Cato, 457. considered as a critick, 469. commended as a teacher of wis-
dom, 470. character of his prose works, 472. a conversation with Pope on
Tickell's translation of Homer, viii. 87. becomes a rival of Pope, viii. 265.
supposed to have been the translator of the Iliad, published under the name
of Tickell, 268. his critical capacity remarked, ii. 404, 440, 442.
Admiration, and ignorance, their mutual and reciprocal operation, ii. 353.
Adventurers, iv. 1-148.

Adversaries, the advantage of contending with illustrious ones, vi. 413.

Adversity, a season fitted to convey the most salutary and useful instruction to
the mind, iii. 212. the appointed instrument of promoting our virtue and hap-
piness, 213.

Advertisements, on pompous and remarkable, iv. 267.

Advice, good, too often disregarded, ii. 408. the causes of this assigned,
409. vanity often the apparent motive of giving it, ibid. when most offensive
and ineffectual, iii. 235.

Affability, the extensive influence of this amiable quality, iii. 173.

Affectation, the vanity and folly of indulging it, ii. 99, 100. wherein it properly
differs from hypocrisy, 101. the great absurdity of it exposed in the character
of Gelasimus, iii. 339.

Afflictions, proper methods of obtaining consolation under them, ii. 85, 250.
Africa, progress of the discoveries made on that coast by the Portuguese, v.

217.

Age, the present an age of authors, iv. 109.

Agriculture, its extensive usefulness considered, iii. 188. thoughts on, both an-
cient and modern, v. 310. productions of, alone sufficient for the support of
an industrious people, 311. in high consideration in Egypt, ibid. the many
ancient writers on that subject, 313. the enrichment of England, 314. a pro-
per subject for honorary rewards, 315. superior to trade and manufactures,
316. danger to be apprehended from the neglect of, ibid. an art which go-
vernment ought to protect, every proprietor of lands to practise, and every in-
quirer into nature to improve, 320. account of, at Raasay, one of the He-
brides, ix. 58. bad state of, at Ostig, in Sky, 74. the raising of the rents of
estates in Scotland considered, 91.

Ajut, his history, iii. 368–375.

Akenside, Dr..Mark, his opinion of Dyer's Fleece, viii. 407. his life, 469. son
of a butcher at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, born 1721. designed for a dissenting
minister, but turns his mind to physick, ibid. Pleasures of Imagination pub-
lished, 1744, ibid. studies at Leyden, and becomes, M. D. 1744, 470. an en-
thusiastick friend to liberty; and a lover of contradiction, ibid. practises phy-
sick at Northampton and Hampstead, 471. settles at London, ibid. allowed
three hundred pounds a year by Mr. Dyson, ibid. by his writings obtains the
name both of a wit and scholar, 472. died 1770, ibid. character of his works,
ibid.

Alabaster's Roxana, commended, vii. 68.