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by Samuel Johnson, Dr. (1709 - 1784)

I had just heard of Williams's Death
Language: English 
September 6.
I had just heard of Williams's Death. 

Almighty and most merciful Father, who art the Lord of
life and death, who givest and who takest away, teach me
to adore thy providence, whatever Thou shalt allot me ; make
me to remember, with due thankfulness, the comforts which
I have received from my friendship with Anna Williams. Look
upon her, O Lord, with mercy, and prepare me, by thy grace, 
to die with hope, and to pass by death to eternal happiness,
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Confirmed with George Birkbeck Norman Hill, Johnsonian Miscellanies, Vol. I, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1897, p.114


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  • by Samuel Johnson, Dr. (1709 - 1784), no title, written 1783, appears in Johnsonian Miscellanies, in Prayers and Meditations, no. 164 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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