[648] ’Unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other.’ St. Luke, vi. 29.  Had Miss Burney thought of this text, she might have quoted it with effect against Johnson, who, criticising her Evelina, said:—­’You write Scotch, you say “the one,”—­my dear, that’s not English.  Never use that phrase again.’  Mme. D’Arblay’s Diary, i. 84.

[649] ‘Turn not thou away.’ St. Matthew, v. 42.

[650] I think it necessary to caution my readers against concluding that in this or any other conversation of Dr. Johnson, they have his serious and deliberate opinion on the subject of duelling.  In my Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, 3 ed. p. 386 [p. 366, Oct. 24], it appears that he made this frank confession:—­’Nobody at times, talks more laxly than I do;’ and, ib. p. 231 [Sept. 19, 1773], ’He fairly owned he could not explain the rationality of duelling.’  We may, therefore, infer, that he could not think that justifiable, which seems so inconsistent with the spirit of the Gospel.  At the same time it must be confessed, that from the prevalent notions of honour, a gentleman who receives a challenge is reduced to a dreadful alternative.  A remarkable instance of this is furnished by a clause in the will of the late Colonel Thomas, of the Guards, written the night before he fell in a duel, Sept. 3, 1783:—­’In the first place, I commit my soul to Almighty GOD, in hopes of his mercy and pardon for the irreligious step I now (in compliance with the unwarrantable customs of this wicked world) put myself under the necessity of taking.’  BOSWELL.  See ante, ii. 179.

[651] See Boswell’s Hebrides, Aug. 24 and Sept. 20.  Dr. Franklin (Memoirs, i. 177) says that when the assembly at Philadelphia, the majority of which were Quakers, was asked by New England to supply powder for some garrison, ’they would not grant money to buy powder, because that was an ingredient of war; but they voted an aid of L3000 to be appropriated for the purchase of bread, flour, wheat, or other grain.’  The Governor interpreted other grain as gunpowder, without any objection ever being raised.

[652] ’A gentleman falling off his horse brake his neck, which sudden hap gave occasion of much speech of his former life, and some in this judging world judged the worst.  In which respect a good friend made this good epitaph, remembering that of Saint Augustine, Misericordia Domini inter pontem et fontem.

     “My friend judge not me,
      Thou seest I judge not thee;
      Betwixt the stirrop and the ground,
      Mercy I askt, mercy I found."’

Camden’s Remains, ed. 1870, p. 420.

[653] ‘In sure and certain hope of the Resurrection to eternal life.’ Prayer-book.