ADVERTISEMENT TO THE THIRD EDITION. ANIMATED by the very favourable reception which two large impressions of this work have had, it has been my study to make it as perfect as I could in this edition. by correcting some inaccuracies which I discovered myself, and some which the kindness of friends, or the scrutiny of adversaries pointed out. A few notes are added, of which the principal object is, to refute misrepresentation and calumny.1 To the animadversions in the periodical Fournals of criticism, and in the numerous publications to which my book has given rise, I have made no answer. Every work must stand or fall by its own merit. I cannot, however, omit this opportunity of returning thanks to a gentleman who published a Defence of my Fournal, and has added to the favour by communicating his name to me in a very obliging letter. It would be an idle waste of time to take any particular notice of the futile remarks, to many of which, a petty national resentment, unworthy of my countrymen, has probably given rise; remarks which have been industriously circulated in the publick prints by shallow or envious cavillers, who have endeavoured to persuade the world that Dr. Johnson's character has been LESSENED by recording such various instances of his lively wit 1 To this edition a map of the route withdrew from the fourth. was added, which however Mr. Malone and acute judgment, on every topick that was presented to his mind. In the opinion of every person of taste and knowledge that I have conversed with, it has been greatly HEIGHTENED; and I will venture to predict, that this specimen of the colloquial talents and extemporaneous effusions of my illustrious fellow-traveller will become still more valuable, when, by the lapse of time, he shall have become an ANCIENT ; when all those who can now bear testimony to the transcendent powers of his mind, shall have passed away; and no other memorial of this great and good man shall remain but the following Fournal, the other anecdotes and letters preserved by his friends, and those incomparable works, which have for many years been in the highest estimation, and will be read and admired as long as the English language shall be spoken or understood. London, 15th Aug., 1786. J. B. CONTENTS. (Second Edition.) DEDICATION. Page 191 194 211 219 ADVERTISEMENT. INTRODUCTION. Character of Dr. Johnson. He arrives in Scotland. 203 to 211 August 15. Sir W. Forbes. Practice of the law. Emigration. Dr. Beattie and Mr. Hume. Dr. Robertson. Mr. Burke's various and extraordinary talents. Question concerning genius. Whitfield and Wesley. Instructions to political parties. Dr. Johnson's opinion of Garrick as a tragedian. August 16. Ogden on Prayer. Aphoristick writing. Edinburgh surveyed. Character of Swift's works. Evil spirits and witchcraft. Lord Monboddo. August 17. Poetry and Dictionary-writing. Scepticism. Eternal necessity refuted. Lord Hailes's criticism on "The Vanity of human Wishes." Mr. Maclaurin. Decision of the Judges in Scotland on literary property. 225 August 18. Set out for the Hebrides. Sketch of the authour's character. Trade of Glasgow. Suicide. Inchkeith. Parliamentary knowledge. Influence of Peers. Popular clamours. Arrive at St. Andrews. August 19. Dr. Watson. Literature and patronage. Writing and conversation compared. Change of manners. The Union. Value of money. St. Andrews and John Knox. Retirement from the world. Dinner with the Professors. Question concerning sorrow and content. Instructions for composition. Dr. Johnson's method. Uncertainty of memory 234 Observance of Sunday. Professor Shaw. Transubstantiation. Literary property. Mr. Tyers's remark on Dr. Johnson. Arrives at Montrose. August 20. Effect of prayer. 229 240 August 21. Want of trees. Laurence Kirk. Dinner at Monboddo. Emigration. Homer. Biography and history compared. Decrease of learning. Causes of it. Promotion of bishops. Warburton. Louth. Value of Politeness. Dr. Johnson's sentiments concerning Lord Monboddo. Arrive at Aberdeen. 243 August 22. Professor Thomas Gordon. Publick and private education. Sir Alexander Gordon. Trade of Aberdeen. Prescription of murder in Scotland. Mystery of the Trinity. Satisfaction of Christ. Importance of old friendships. 250 August 23. Dr. Johnson made a burgess of Aberdeen. Dinner at Sir Alexander Gordon's. Warburton's powers of invective. His "Doctrine of Grace." Lock's verses. Fingal. August 24. Goldsmith and Graham. Slains castle. Education of children. Buller of Buchan. Entails. Consequence of Peers. Sir Joshua Reynolds. Earl of Errol. 259 August 25. The advantage of being on good terms with relations. Nabobs. Feudal state of subordination. Dinner at Strichen. Life of country gentleTHE LITERARY Club. August 26. Lord Monboddo. Use and importance of wealth. Elgin. Macbeth's Fores. 268 272 heath. August 27. Leonidas. Paul Whitehead. Derrick. Origin of Evil. Calder-manse. Reasonableness of ecclesiastical subscription. Family worship. August 28. Fort George. Sir Adolphus Oughton. and Lowth. Dinner at Sir Eyre Coote's. compared. The Stage. Mr. Garrick, Mrs. Cibber, Mrs. Pritchard, Mrs. Clive. Inverness. August 29. Macbeth's Castle. Contest between Warburton 276 new words. Dr. Johnson's Dictionary. August 30. Dr. Johnson on horse-back. A Highland hut. Fort Augustus. Go August 31. Anoch. Emigration. Goldsmith. Poets and soldiers compared. September 7. Uneasy state of dependence on the weather. State of those who live in the country. Dr. M'Pherson's Dissertations. Second Sight. September 8. Rev. Mr. Donald M'Queen. Mr. Malcolm M'Cleod. Rasay. Fingal. Homer. Elegant and gay entertainment at Rasay. September 9. Antiquity of the family of Rasay. Cure of infidelity. September 10. Survey of the island of Rasay. Bentley. Mallet. Hooke. Duchess of Marlborough. September 11. Heritable jurisdictions. Insular life. The Laird of M'Cleod. September 13. Distresses and escape of the grandson of King James II. Arrive at Dunvegan. 322 September 14 Importance of the chastity of women. Dr. Cadogan. Whether the practice of authours is necessary to enforce their doctrines. Good humour acquirable. 340 September 15. Sir George Mackenzie. Mr. Burke's wit, knowledge, and eloquence 342 September 16. Dr. Johnson's hereditary melancholy. His minute knowledge in various arts. Apology for the authour's ardour in his pursuits. Dr. Johnson's imaginary seraglio. Polygamy.. 344 September 17. Cunning. Whether great abilities are necessary to be wicked. Temple of the Goddess Anaitis. Family Portraits. Records not consulted by old English historians. Mr. Pennant's Tours criticised. September 18. Ancient residence of a Highland Chief. Languages the pedigree of Laird of the Isle of Muck. September 19. Choice of a wife. Women an over-match for men. Lady Grange in St. Kilda. Poetry of savages. French Literati. Prize-fighting. French and English soldiers. Duelling. 353 September 20. Change of London manners. Laziness censured. Landed and 356 traded interest compared. Gratitude considered. September 21. Description of Dunvegan. Lord Lovat's Pyramid. Ride to Ulinish. Phipps's Voyage to the North Pole. 358 September 22. Subterraneous house and vast cave in Ulinish. Swift's Lord Orrery. Defects as well as virtues the proper subject of biography, though the life ba written by a friend. Studied conclusions of letters. Whether allowable in dying men to maintain resentment to the last. Instructions for writing the lives of literary men. Fingal denied to be genuine, and pleasantly ridiculed. 361 September 23. Further disquisition concerning Fingal. Eminent men disconcerted by a new mode of publick appearance. Garrick. Mrs. Montague's Essay on Shakspeare. Persons of consequence watched in London. Learning of the Scots from 1550 to 1650. The arts of civil life little known in Scotland till the Union. Life of a sailor. The folly of Peter the Great in working in a dock-yard. Arrive at Talisker. Presbyterian clergy deficient in learning. 364 September 24. French hunting. Young Col. Dr. Birch. Dr. Percy. Lord Hailes. Historical impartiality. Whiggism unbecoming in a clergyman. 372 September 25. Every island a prison. A Sky cottage. Return to Corrichatachin. Good fellowship carried to excess. 374 September 26. Morning review of last night's intemperance. Old Kingsburgh's Jacobite song. Lady Margaret Macdonald adored in Sky. Different views of the same subject at different times. Self-deception. September 27. Dr. Johnson's popularity in the Isle of Sky. His good-humoured gaiety with a Highland lady. 376 378 September 28. Ancient Irish pride of family. Dr. Johnson on threshing and thatching. Dangerous to increase the price of labour. Arrive at Ostig. Dr. M'Pherson's Latin poetry. September 29. Reverend Mr. M'Pherson. Hanbury Williams. Shenstone. 380 Hammond. Sir Charles - 383 September 30. Mr. Burke the first man every where. Very moderate talents requisite to make a figure in the House of Commons. Dr. Young. Dr. Doderidge. Increase of infidel writings since the accession of the Hanover family. Gradual impression made by Dr. Johnson. Particular minutes to be kept of our studies. October 1. Dr. Johnson not answerable for all the words in his Dictionary. Attacks on authours useful to them. Return to Armidale. October 2. Old manners of great families in Wales. German courts. Goldsmith's love of talk. Emigration. Curious story of the people of St. Kilda. October 3. Epictetus on the voyage of death. Sail from Mull. A storm. Driven October 4. Dr. Johnson's mode of living in the Temple. His curious appearance on a sheltie. Nature of sea-sickness. Burnet's History of his own Times. Difference between dedications and histories. October 5. People may come to do any thing by talking of it. The Reverend Mr. |