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1773 x . Inchoavi lectionem Pentateuch! Finivi lectionem Conf. Fab. Burdonum 2 . Legi primum actum Troadum 3 . Legi Dissertationem Clerici postremam de Pent. 4 2 of Clark's Sermons. L. Appolonii pugnam Betriciam 5 . L. centum versus Homed.

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Almighty God, merciful Father, who hatest nothing that thou hast made, but wouldest that all should be saved, have mercy upon me. As thou hast extended my Life, encrease my strength, direct my purposes, and confirm my resolution, that I may truly serve Thee, and perform the duties which Thou shalt allot me.

Relieve, O gracious Lord, according to thy mercy the pains and distempers of my Body, and appease the tumults of my Mind. Let my Faith and Obedience encrease as my life ad vances, and let the approach of Death incite my desire to please Thee, and invigorate my diligence in good works, till at last, when Thou shalt call me to another state, I shall lie down in humble hope, supported by thy Holy Spirit, and be received to everlasting happiness, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. I hope

To read the Gospels before Easter.

1 'These notes of his studies ap- where he was not orthodox, which was pear on different days in his manu- upon the doctrine of the Trinity, as script diary of this year.' Life, ii. to which he is a condemned heretik.' 263. Ib. iii. 248, and ante, p. 38, n. 4.

2 Accurata Burdonum [i. e. Scali- 5 The Rev. H. E. D. Blakiston of gerorum] Fabulae Confutatio. Brit. Trinity College, Oxford, informs me Mus. Catalogue (auctore I. R.). that in the second book of Apollo- Lugduni Batavorum. Apud Ludo- nius's Argonautica there is the fight vicum Elzevirium MDCXVII. of Polydeuces with Amycus, King of

3 For Johnson's study of Euri- the Bebryces, which. Johnson might pides, see Life, i. 70, 72 ; iv. 311. have latinised as pugna Bebryda or

4 'JOHNSON. I should recommend Bebricia, misprinted Betricia. Dr. Clarke's sermons, were he ortho- 6 Ante, p. 42, n. i.

dox. However it is very well known

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