[654] Upon this objection the Reverend Mr. Ralph Churton, Fellow of Brazennose College, Oxford, has favoured me with the following satisfactory observation:—­’The passage in the Burial-service does not mean the resurrection of the person interred, but the general resurrection; it is in sure and certain hope of the resurrection; not his resurrection.  Where the deceased is really spoken of, the expression is very different, “as our hope is this our brother doth” [rest in Christ]; a mode of speech consistent with every thing but absolute certainty that the person departed doth not rest in Christ, which no one can be assured of, without immediate revelation from Heaven.  In the first of these places also, “eternal life” does not necessarily mean eternity of bliss, but merely the eternity of the state, whether in happiness or in misery, to ensue upon the resurrection; which is probably the sense of “the life everlasting,” in the Apostles’ Creed.  See Wheatly and Bennet on the Common Prayer.’  BOSWELL.

[655] Six days earlier the Lord-Advocate Dundas had brought in a bill for the Regulation of the Government of India.  Hastings, he said, should be recalled.  His place should be filled by ’a person of independent fortune, who had not for object the repairing of his estate in India, that had long been the nursery of ruined and decayed fortunes.’ Parl.  Hist. xxiii. 757.  Johnson wrote to Dr. Taylor on Nov. 22 of this year:—­’I believe corruption and oppression are in India at an enormous height, but it has never appeared that they were promoted by the Directors, who, I believe, see themselves defrauded, while the country is plundered; but the distance puts their officers out of reach.’ Notes and Queries, 6th S. v. 482.  See ante, p. 66.

[656] See ante, p. 113.

[657] Stockdale (Memoirs, ii. 57) says that, in 1770, the payment to writers in the Critical Review was two guineas a sheet, but that some of the writers in The Monthly Review received four guineas a sheet.  As these Reviews were octavos, each sheet contained sixteen pages.  Lord Jeffrey says that the writers in the Edinburgh Review were at first paid ten guineas a sheet.  ’Not long after the minimum was raised to sixteen guineas, at which it remained during my reign, though two-thirds of the articles were paid much higher—­averaging, I should think, from twenty to twenty-five guineas a sheet on the whole number.’  Cockburn’s Jeffrey, i. 136.

[658] See ante, ii. 344.

[659] See ante, iii.32.

[660] See ante, p. 206.

[661] Monday is no doubt put by mistake for Tuesday, which was the 29th.  Boswell had spent a considerable part of Monday the 28th with Johnson (ante, p. 211).

[662]

     ’A fugitive from Heaven and prayer,
      I mocked at all religious fear.’ 
FRANCIS.  Horace, Odes, i.34. 1.