[310] See post, June 28, 1777, note.
[311] Laceration was properly a term of surgery; hence the italics. See post, Jan. 20, 1780.
[312] See post, April 15, 1778.
[313] See Boswell's Hebrides, Sept. 12, 1773.
[314] He bids us pray 'For faith that panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind nature's signal of retreat.'
[315]
'To die is landing on some silent shore,
Where billows never beat, nor tempests roar,
Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 'tis o'er.'
GARTH. Quoted in Johnson's Works, vi. 61. Bacon, if he was the author of An Essay on Death, says, 'I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.' Spedding's Bacon, vi. 600. Cicero (Tuscul. Quaest. i. 8) quotes Epicharmus's saying:—'Emori nolo, sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.'
[316] See post, beginning of 1773.
[317] See post, April 17, 1778.