Excerpt from The North American Miscellany, 1851, Vol. 2: A Weekly Magazine of Choice Selections From the Current Literature of This Country and Europe This, it must be allowed, was a singular beginning of counubial felicity; but there is no doubt that Johnson, though he thus showed a manly firmness, proved a most aflectionate and indulgent husband to the last moment of Mrs. Johnson's life; and in his Prayers and Meditations' we find very remarkable evidence that his regard and fondness for her never ceased, even after her death. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.