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# Samuel Johnson (Meynell & Chesterton)/Chapter 12j

To the author of "Ossian"
Mr. James Macpherson,
I received your foolish and impudent letter. Any violence offered me I shall do my best to repel; and what I cannot do for myself the law shall do for me. I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat by the menaces of a ruffian.
What would you have me retract? I thought your book an imposture; I think it an imposture still. For this opinion I have given my reasons to the public, which I here dare you to refute. Your rage I defy. Your abilities since your Homer are not so formidable, and what I hear of your morals inclines me to pay regard not to what you shall say, but to ​what you shall prove. You may print this if you will.
Sam. Johnson.
# Samuel Johnson (Meynell & Chesterton)/Chapter 12d

To Miss Boothby
My sweet Angel,
I have read your book, I am afraid you will think without any great improvement. . . . You ought not to be offended; I am perhaps as sincere as the writer. In all things that terminate here I shall be much guided by your influence, and should take or leave by your direction; but I cannot receive my religion from any human hand. I desire however to be instructed. . . . Dear Angel, do not forget me. My heart is full of tenderness.
December 31st [1755].
# Samuel Johnson (Meynell & Chesterton)/Chapter 12e

To James Boswell (on his way home from Corsica)
Dear Sir,
Apologies are seldom of any use. We will delay till your arrival the reasons, good or bad, which have made me such a sparing and ungrateful correspondent. Be assured, for ​the present, that nothing has lessened either the esteem or love with which I dismissed you at Harwich. Both have been increased by all that I have been told of you by yourself or others; and when you return, you will return to an unaltered, and, I hope, unalterable friend.
All that you have to fear from me is the vexation of disappointing me. No man loves to frustrate expectations which have been formed in his favour; and the pleasure which I promise myself from your journals and remarks is so great, that perhaps no degree of attention or discernment will be sufficient to afford it.
Come home, however, and take your chance. I long to see you, and to hear you; and hope that we shall not be so long separated again. Come home, and expect such welcome as is due to him, whom a wise and noble curiosity has led where perhaps no native of his country ever was before.
I have no news to tell you that can deserve your notice; nor would I lessen the pleasure that any novelty may give you at your return. I am afraid we shall find it difficult to keep among us a mind which has been so long feasted with variety. But let us try what esteem and kindness can effect.
​As your father's liberality has indulged you with so long a ramble, I doubt not but you will think his sickness, or even his desire to see you, a sufficient reason for hastening your return. The longer we live, and the more we think, the higher value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness of parents and of friends. Parents we can have but once; and he promises himself too much, who enters life with the expectation of finding many friends. Upon some motive, I hope that you will be here soon; and am willing to think that it will be an inducement to your return, that it is sincerely desired by, dear Sir,
Your affectionate humble servant,
Sam. Johnson.
January 14th, 1766.
# Samuel Johnson (Meynell & Chesterton)/Chapter 12h

To Dr. Lawrence
Dear Sir,
At a time when all your friends ought to shew their kindness, and with a character which ought to make all that know you your friends, you may wonder that you have yet heard nothing from me. . . .
The loss, dear Sir, which you have lately suffered, I felt many years ago, and know ​therefore how much has been taken from you, and how little help can be had from consolation. He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and interest; from the only companion with whom he has shared much good or evil; and with whom he could set his mind at liberty, to retrace the past or anticipate the future. The continuity of being is lacerated; the settled course of sentiment and action is stopped; and life stands suspended and motionless, till it is driven by external causes into a new channel. But the time of suspense is dreadful.
Our first recourse, in this distressed solitude, is, perhaps for want of habitual piety, to a gloomy acquiescence in necessity. Of two mortal beings, one must lose the other; but surely there is a higher and better comfort to be drawn from the consideration of that Providence which watches over all, and a belief that the living and the dead are equally in the hands of God, who will reunite those whom he has separated; or who sees that it is best not to reunite. I am, dear Sir,
Your most affectionate
and most humble servant,
Sam. Johnson.
January 20th, 1780.
# Samuel Johnson (Meynell & Chesterton)/Chapter 12g

To James Boswell
Dear Sir,
Why should you importune me so earnestly to write? Of what importance can it be to hear of distant friends, to a man who finds himself welcome wherever he goes, and makes new friends faster than he can want them? If ​to the delight of such universal kindness of reception, anything can be added by knowing that you retain my good will, you may indulge yourself in the full enjoyment of that small addition.
In the place where you now are, there is much to be observed. . . . But what will you do to keep away the black dog that worries you at home? . . . The great direction which Burton has left to men disordered like you, is this: Be not solitary; be not idle: which I would thus modify—If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.
There is a letter for you, from
Your humble servant,
Sam. Johnson.
October 27th 1779.
# Samuel Johnson (Meynell & Chesterton)/Chapter 12i

To the Lord Chancellor, who had offered an advance of five hundred pounds
My Lord,
After a long and not inattentive observation of mankind, the generosity of your Lordship's offer raises in me not less wonder than gratitude. Bounty, so liberally bestowed, I should gladly receive if my condition made it necessary; for to such a mind who would not be proud to own his obligations? But it has pleased God to restore me to so great a measure of health, that, if I should now appropriate so much of a fortune destined to do good, I could not escape from myself the charge of advancing a false claim. My journey to the continent, though I once thought it necessary, was never much encouraged by my physicians: and I was very desirous that your Lordship should be told it by Sir Joshua Reynolds as an event very uncertain; for if I grew much better, I should not be willing, if much worse, I should not be able, to migrate. Your Lordship was first solicited without my knowledge; but when I was told that you were pleased to honour me with your patronage, I did not expect to hear of a refusal; yet, as I have had no long time to brood hopes, and have not ​rioted in imaginary opulence, this cold reception had been scarce a disappointment; and from your Lordship's kindness I have received a benefit which only men like you are able to bestow. I shall now live mihi carior, with a higher opinion of my own merit.
I am, my Lord,
Your Lordship's most obliged,
most grateful, and most humble servant,
Sam. Johnson.
Sept. 1784.
# Public Law 111-28

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An Act To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 103 West Main Street in McLain, Mississippi, as the `Major Ed W. Freeman Post Office'.
    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

### SECTION 1. MAJOR ED W. FREEMAN POST OFFICE.

    (a) Designation—
       The facility of the United States Postal Service located at 103 West Main Street in McLain, Mississippi, shall be known and designated as the `Major Ed W. Freeman Post Office'.
    (b) References—
       Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States to the facility referred to in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be a reference to the `Major Ed W. Freeman Post Office'.
Approved June 19, 2009.

## Legislative History

* H.R. 1284
   * CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 155 (2009):
   ** Mar. 16, considered and passed House.
   ** May 21, considered and passed Senate.
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# Public Law 111-26

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An Act To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 12877 Broad Street in Sparta, Georgia, as the `Yvonne Ingram-Ephraim Post Office Building'.
    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

### SECTION 1. YVONNE INGRAM-EPHRAIM POST OFFICE BUILDING.

    (a) Designation—
       The facility of the United States Postal Service located at 12877 Broad Street in Sparta, Georgia, shall be known and designated as the `Yvonne Ingram-Ephraim Post Office Building'.
    (b) References—
       Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States to the facility referred to in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be a reference to the `Yvonne Ingram-Ephraim Post Office Building'.
Approved June 19, 2009.

## Legislative History

* H.R. 663
   * CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 155 (2009):
   ** Feb. 12, 13, considered and passed House.
   ** May 21, considered and passed Senate.
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# Public Law 111-27

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An Act To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 300 East 3rd Street in Jamestown, New York, as the `Stan Lundine Post Office Building'.
    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

### SECTION 1. STAN LUNDINE POST OFFICE BUILDING.

    (a) Designation—
       The facility of the United States Postal Service located at 300 East 3rd Street in Jamestown, New York, shall be known and designated as the `Stan Lundine Post Office Building'.
    (b) References—
       Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States to the facility referred to in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be a reference to the `Stan Lundine Post Office Building'.
Approved June 19, 2009.

## Legislative History

* H.R. 918
   * CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 155 (2009):
   ** Mar. 23, considered and passed House.
   ** May 21, considered and passed Senate.
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# Public Law 111-222

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An Act To amend the National Law Enforcement Museum Act to extend the termination date.
    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

#### Section 1. National Law Enforcement Museum Act.

    Section 4(f) of the National Law Enforcement Museum Act (Public Law 106–492) is amended by striking “10 years” and inserting “13 years”.
Approved August 8, 2010
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# Public Law 111-251

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An Act To provide for an additional temporary extension of programs under the Small Business Act and the Small Business Investment Act of 1958, and for other purposes.
    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

### Section 1 Additional temporary extension of authorization of programs under The Small Business Act of 1958.

    (a) In General—
       Section 1 of the Act entitled 'An Act to extend temporarily certain authorities of the Small Business Administration', approved October 10, 2006 (Public Law 109-316; 120 Stat. 1742), as most recently amended by section 1 of Public Law 111-214 (124 Stat. 2346), is amended by striking 'September 30, 2010' each place it appears and inserting 'January 31, 2011'.
    (b) Effective Date—
       The amendments made by subsection (a) shall take effect on September 29, 2010.

## Legislative History

* S. 3839
   * CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 156 (2010):
   ** Sep. 24, considered and passed Senate.
   ** Sep. 28, considered and passed House.
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# Public Law 111-29

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An Act To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3245 Latta Road in Rochester, New York, as the `Brian K. Schramm Post Office Building'.
    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

### SECTION 1. BRIAN K. SCHRAMM POST OFFICE BUILDING.

    (a) Designation—
       The facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3245 Latta Road in Rochester, New York, shall be known and designated as the `Brian K. Schramm Post Office Building'.
    (b) References—
       Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States to the facility referred to in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be a reference to the `Brian K. Schramm Post Office Building'.
Approved June 19, 2009.

## Legislative History

* H.R. 1595
   * CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 155 (2009):
   ** Apr. 28, considered and passed House.
   ** May 21, considered and passed Senate.
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# Public Law 111-31

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An Act To protect the public health by providing the Food and Drug Administration with certain authority to regulate tobacco products, to amend Title 5, United States Code, to make certain modifications in the Thrift Savings Plan, the Civil Service Retirement System, and the Federal Employees' Retirement System, and for other purposes.
    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
          DIVISION A—FAMILY SMOKING PREVENTION AND TOBACCO CONTROL ACT
          DIVISION B—FEDERAL RETIREMENT REFORM ACT
Approved June 22, 2009.

## Legislative History

* H.R. 1256
   * HOUSE REPORTS:
   ** No. 111-58, Pt. 1 (Comm. on Energy and Commerce)
   ** No. 111-58, Pt. 2 (Comm. on Oversight and Government Reform)
   * CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 155 (2009):
   ** Apr. 1, 2, considered and passed House.
   ** June 3, 4, 8-11, considered and passed Senate, amended.
   ** June 12, House concurred in Senate amendment.
   * DAILY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS (2009):
   ** June 22, Presidential remarks.
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