Every man has frequent grievances which only
the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would
remain for ever unheeded in the mighty heap of human calamity, were it
only surveyed by the eye of general benevolence equally attentive to
every misery.' See _ante_, i. 207, note 1.
[846] _Galatians_, vi. 10.
[847] _St. John_, xxi. 20. Compare Jeremy Taylor's _Measures and Offices
of Friendship_, ch. i. 4.
[848] In the first two editions 'from this _amiable and_ pleasing
subject.'
[849] _Acts of the Apostles_, ix. i.
[850] See _ante_, ii. 82.
[851] If any of my readers are disturbed by this thorny question,
I beg leave to recommend, to them Letter 69 of Montesquieu's _Lettres
Persanes_; and the late Mr. John Palmer of Islington's Answer to Dr.
Priestley's mechanical arguments for what he absurdly calls
'Philosophical Necessity.' BOSWELL. See _post_, under Aug. 29, 1783;
note.
[852] See _ante_, ii. 217, and iii. 55.
[853] 'I have proved,' writes Mandeville (_Fables of the Bees_, ed.
1724, p. 179), 'that the real pleasures of all men in nature are
worldly and sensual, if we judge from their practice; I say all men in
nature, because devout Christians, who alone are to be excepted here,
being regenerated and preternaturally assisted by the divine grace,
cannot be said to be in nature.
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