[1073] Pr. and Med. p. 138. BOSWELL.
[1074] This line is not, as appears, a quotation, but an abstract of p. 139 of Pr. and Med.
[1075] This is a proverbial sentence. 'Hell,' says Herbert, 'is full of good meanings and wishings.' Jacula Prudentum, p. 11, edit 1651. MALONE.
[1076] Boswell wrote to Temple:—'I have only to tell you, as my divine, that I yesterday received the holy sacrament in St. Paul's Church, and was exalted in piety.' It was in the same letter that he mentioned 'Asiatic multiplicity' (ante p. 352, note 1). Letters of Boswell, p. 189.
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'Nil admirari, prope res est una, Numici,
Solaque, quae possit facere et servare beatum'
Horace, Epis. i. 6. 1.
'Not to admire is all the art I know,
To make men happy and keep them so'
Pope's Imitations, adapted from Creech.
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