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,
'January 20, 1780.'
'SAM. JOHNSON.'
On the 2nd of May I wrote to him, and requested that we might have
another meeting somewhere in the North of England, in the autumn of this
year.
From Mr. Langton I received soon after this time a letter, of which I
extract a passage, relative both to Mr. Beauclerk and Dr. Johnson.
'The melancholy information you have received concerning Mr. Beauclerk's
death is true. Had his talents been directed in any sufficient degree
as they ought, I have always been strongly of opinion that they were
calculated to make an illustrious figure; and that opinion, as it had
been in part formed upon Dr.
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