Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-18
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Scheme of life.

Scneme or life.
FNHE very human feature Of these little
L notes is that the same good resolutions
appear year after year. Thus, four years
after the above. we find him writing:
Sept. IS, 1854
This is my 56th birthday the day on
which l have concluded 55 years.
have outlived many friends. I have
felt many sorrows. I have made few i'm
provements. Since my resolution formed
last Easter I have nrade no advancement
in knowledge or in goodness; nor do rec
ollect that l have endeavored it. l am de-
jected. but not hopeless.
resolve,
To study the Scriptures I hope. in the
original languages $40 verses every Sun
day will nearly comprise the Scriptures in
year.
To read good books to study theology
To treasure in my mind passages for rec
election.
To rise early: not later than six. il
can: II hope sooner, but soon | can.
To keep a journal, both of employment
and of expenses. To keep accounts.
To take care of my health by such
means as | have designed.
To set down at night some plan for the
morrow.
Tcmorrow T purpose to regulate my
room.
L he often lies abed until two in the after
noon which. after ALL was not so deplorable,
for he usually went to bed very late Bos-
well has spoken of the unreasonable hour
at which he had habtuated himself to expect
the oblivion of repose." On New Years Day,
1857, he prays: Enable me. o Lord to use
all enjoynrents with due temperance. pre-
serve me. from unreasonable and immoderate
sleep" Two years later than this he writes i
! am not yet in a state to form many
resolutions: | purpose and hope to rise
early in the morning, at eight, and by de-
grees at six; eight being the latest hour
to which bedtime can be properly ex-
tended and six the earliest that the pres
ent system of life requires.
One of the most pathetic of his entries Is
the following, on September IS, 1858:
This day it came into my mind to write
the history of nry melancholy. On this 1
purpose to deliberate l know not whether
it may not too much disturb me.
TROM time to time there have been stupid
II or malicious people who have said that
Johnsons marriage with homely woman
twenty years older than himself not a
love match For instance, Mr. f. w Howe,
Of Atchison. Kan, in most respects an amia-
BILE and well-conducted philosopher uttered
in Howe's Monthly last May the following
words. which q hope) he will forever regret :
/ have heard that when young man he
woman for her money. and that his taste
was so bad that he worshiped her.
Against this let us set what johnson wrote
in his notebook on March 2s. ITO:
This Is the day on which, in 1752 I was
deprived of poor dear Tetty. When / rec
ollect the time in which we lived together,
nry grief for her departure is not abated
and / have less pleasure in any good that
befals me, because she does not partake
1t. On many occasions. think what she
would have said or done. When / saw the
sea at Brighthelnstone, ] wished for her
to have seen II with me. But with respect
to her, no rational wish is now left but
that We may meet at last where the mercy
of God shall make us happy. and perhaps
make US instrumental to the happiness of
each other. 1t is now IS years
TET us end the memorandum with a less
~ solemn note, on Good Friday, 1873, he
and Boswell went to church together When
they returned the good old doctor sat down
to read .the Bible, and he says, II gave Bos-
we'll Les Pensees de Pascal. that he might
not interrupt me-" OF this very copy Bos-
well says: Il preserve the book with rever-
ence" wonder who has 1t now? ats
SO let US wish Doctor johnson many happy
returns of the day, suTe that as long "a
paper and ink and eyebsGht preservs fhoir
lSiNG 'asi isysS