"It is the business of a biographer to pass lightly over those performances and actions which produce vulgar greatness; to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appearances are laid aside."—Rambler, No. 60, Vol. ii.
[288] See Diary of Dr. Johnson.
[289] See pp. 170, 171.
[290] Rev. xxi. 5.
[291] Psal. cvii. 20.
[292] 1 Pet. i. 23. See also Heb. iv. 12.
[293] "It is the Spirit that quickeneth." John vi. 63. The union of the Word and the Spirit in imparting spiritual life to the soul is forcibly expressed in the same verse: "The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life."
[294] See Lord Teignmouth's Life of Sir William Jones.
[295] Ibid.
[296] Private correspondence.