comforts and conveniences which I have enjoyed at this place, and that I may resign them with holy submission, equally trusting in thy protection when Thou givest and when Thou takest away. Have mercy upon me, O Lord, have mercy upon me.
To thy fatherly protection, O Lord, I commend this family. Bless, guide, and defend them, that they may so pass through this world as finally to enjoy in thy presence everlasting happiness, for Jesus Christs sake. Amen[1].
O Lord, so far as, &c. — Thrale[2].
Oct. 7. I was called early[3]. I packed up my bundles[4], and used the foregoing prayer, with my morning devotions somewhat, I think, enlarged. Being earlier than the family I read St. Pauls farewel in the Acts[5], and then read fortuitously in the Gospels, which was my parting use of the library.
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Sunday, went to church at Streatham. Templo valedixi cum osculo[6].
Oct. 6, Die Dominica, 1782.
Pransus sum Streathamiæ agninum crus coctum cum herbis (spinach) comminutis, farcimen farinaceum cum uvis passis, lumbos bovillos, et pullum gallinæ Turcicæ; et post carnes
- ↑ Quoted in the Life, iv. 158.
- ↑ Ante, p. 24.
- ↑ He was perhaps going that day with the Thrales to Brighton. He was there on the 10th. Letters, ii. 273. 'I came to Brighthelmston in a state of so much weakness that I rested four times in walking between the inn and the lodging.' Life, iv. 156.
- ↑ See Letters, ii. 319, where he says: — 'I carried my budget myself.'
- ↑ Acts xx. 17-end.
- ↑ Life, iv. 159. 'I bade the church farewell with a kiss.'
bours from all the adjacent villages to admire and enjoy the diversion.' Ib. p. 304.
In 1783 Jeremy Bentham visited Lord Shelburne at Streatham, who at that time was negotiating the Treaty of Peace with France. 'At one of the dinners Gibraltar was the topic, and Rayneval [one of the French negotiators] was very desirous it should be given up by the English. There were among the guests those who thought Gibraltar was not worth keeping.' The Viscount de Vergennes, the son of the Prime Minister of France, said to Bentham: – 'Are there any such people in England as authors?' The portraits of 'the wits of the age' whom Reynolds had painted for Thrale were still hanging on the walls. Bentham, who had noticed them, perhaps, by way of answer, pointed out to the foolish Viscount the likenesses of Burke, Johnson, and Goldsmith. Bentham's Works, x. 118, 122; Life, iv. 158, n. 1.
