[Footnote 115: See the letters [11January 13th, 16th, 18th, 20th, and 23rd, 1759], written by Johnson to his mother when she was ninety, and he himself was in his fiftieth year.--Crokers BOSWELL, 8vo. Ed. pp. 113, 114.] [Footnote 116: Jared Sparks' 'Life of Washington.'] [Footnote 117: Forster's 'Eminent British Statesmen' [11Cabinet Cyclop.] vi. 8.] [Footnote 118: The Earl of Mornington, composer of 'Here in cool grot,' &c.] [Footnote 119: Robert Bell's 'Life of Canning,' p. 37.] [Footnote 1110: 'Life of Curran,' by his son, p. 4.] [Footnote 1111: The father of the Wesleys had even determined at one time to abandon his wife because her conscience forbade her to assent to his prayers for the then reigning monarch, and he was only saved from the consequences of his rash resolve by the accidental death of William III. He displayed the same overbearing disposition in dealing with his children; forcing his daughter Mehetabel to marry, against her will, a man whom she did not love, and who proved entirely unworthy of her.] [Footnote 1112: Goethe himself says--"Vom Vater hab' ich die Statur, Des Lebens ernstes Fuhren; Von Mutterchen die Frohnatur Und Lust zu fabuliren."] [Footnote 1113: Mrs. Grote's 'Life of Ary Scheffer,' p. 154.] [Footnote 1114: Michelet, 'On Priests, Women, and Families.'] [Footnote 1115: Mrs. Byron is said to have died in a fit of passion, brought on by reading her upholsterer's bills.] [Footnote 1116: Sainte-Beuve, 'Causeries du Lundi,' i. 23.] [Footnote 1117: Ibid. i. 22.] [Footnote 1118: Ibid. 1. 23.] [Footnote 1119: That about one-third of all the children born in this country die under five years of age, can only he attributable to ignorance of the natural laws, ignorance of the human constitution, and ignorance of the uses of pure air, pure water, and of the art of preparing and administering wholesome food. There is no such mortality amongst the lower animals.]