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DEDICATION.

CONTENTS.

ADVERTISEMENT.

INTRODUCTION. Character of Dr. Johnson. He arrives in Scot

land.

Practice of the law.
Practice of the law. Emigra-

Hume. Dr. Robertson. Mr.

August 15. Sir William Forbes. tion. Dr. Beattie and 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 trage

dian. August 16. Ogden on Prayer. Aphoristick writing. Aphoristick writing. Edinburgh surveyed. Character of Swift's works. Evil spirits and witchcraft. Lord Monboddo and the Ouran-Outang.

necessity refuted.

Augusi 17. Poetry and Dictionary writing. Scepticism. Eternal Lord Hailes's criticism on The Vanity of Decision of the Judges in

Human Wishes. Mr. Maclaurin.

Scotland on literary property.

August 18. Set out for the Hebrides. Sketch of the authour's character. Trade of Glasgow. Suicide. Inchkeith. Parliamentary knowledge. Influence of Peers.

ours. Arrive at St. Andrews.

August 19. Dr. Watson. Literature and patronage.
conversation compared. Change of manners.
Value of money.
St. Andrews and John Knox.
from the world. Dinner with the Professors.

Popular clam

Writing and

The Union.

Retirement Question con

cerning sorrow and content. Instructions for composition. Dr. Johnson's method. Uncertainty of memory.

August 20.

Effect of prayer. Shaw. Transubstantiation. remark on Dr. Johnson.

Observance of Sunday.

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Arrive at Montrose.

August 21. Want of trees. Laurence Kirk. Dinner at Monboddo. Emigration. Homer. Biography and history compared.

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Decrease of learning.

Warburton. Lowth.

Contents.

Causes of it. Promotion of Bishops.
Value of politeness. Dr. Johnson's

sentiments concerning Lord Monboddo. Arrive at Aber

deen. 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. 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.

August 25. The advantage of being on good terms with relations. Feudal state of subordination.

Nabobs.

Dinner at Strichen.

Life of country gentlemen. THE LITERARY CLUB. August 26. Lord Monboddo. Use and importance of wealth. Elgin. Macbeth's heath.

August 27.

Fores.

Leonidas. Paul Whitehead.

Derrick.

Origin of

Evil. Calder-manse. Reasonableness of ecclesiastical subscription. Family worship.

August 28.

Fort George. Sir Adolphus Oughton. Contest between Warburton and Lowth. Dinner at Sir Eyre Coote's. Arabs and English soldiers compared. The Stage. Mr. Garrick, Mrs. Cibber, Mrs. Pritchard, Mrs. Clive. Inverness. August 29. Macbeth's Castle. Incorrectness of writers of Travels. Coinage of new words. Dr. Johnson's Dictionary. August 30. Dr. Johnson on horse-back. A Highland hut. Fort Augustus. Governour Trapaud. August 31. Anoch. Emigration. Goldsmith. Poets and soldiers compared. Life of a sailor. Landlord's daughter at Anoch.

September 1.

Glensheal. The Macraas. Dr. Johnson's anger at being left for a little while by the authour on a wild plain. Wretched inn at Glenelg.

September 2. Dr. Johnson relents. Isle of Sky. Armidale.
September 3. Colonel Montgomery, now Earl of Eglintoune.
September 4. Ancient Highland Enthusiasm.

September 5. Sir James Macdonald's epitaph and last letters to

his

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his mother. Dr. Johnson's Latin ode on the Isle of Sky. Isaac Hawkins Browne.

September 6. Corrichatachin.

Highland hospitality and mirth.

Dr. Johnson's Latin ode to Mrs. Thrale.

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. Sail to 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. Duchess of Marlborough.

Hooke.

September 11. Heritable jurisdictions. Insular life. The Laird of M'Cleod.

September 12. Sail to Portree. Dr. Johnson's discourse on death. Letters from Lord Elibank to Dr. Johnson and the authour. Dr. Johnson's answer. Ride to Kingsburgh. Flora M'Donald. September 13. Distresses and escape of the grandson of King James II. Arrive at Dunvegan.

September 14. Importance of the chastity of women. Dr. Cadogan. Whether the practice of authours is necessary to enforce their Doctrines. Good humour acquirable.

September 15. Sir George M'Kenzie. Mr. Burke's wit, knowledge and eloquence.

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. 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 nations. Laird of the Isle of Muck.

September 19. Choice of a wife.
Lady Grange in St. Kilda.

Women an over-match for men.
Poetry of savages. French Lit-

erati. Prize-fighting. French and English soldiers. Duelling.

September 20. Change of London manners.

Landed and traded interest compared.
ered.

Laziness censured.

Gratitude consid

September

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September 21. Description of Dunvegan. Lord Lovat's Pyramid. Ride to Ulinish. Phipps's Voyage to the North Pole. 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 be 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.

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.

September 24.

French hunting. Young Col. Dr. Birch, Dr. Percy.
Lord Hailes. Historical impartiality.
Historical impartiality. Whiggism unbecom-

ing in a clergyman.

September 25. Every island a prison. A Sky cottage. Return to Corrichatachin. Good fellowship carried to excess.

September 26. Morning review of last night's intemperance. Oid 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.

September 28. Ancient Irish pride of family. Dr. Johnson on threshing and thatching. Dangerous to increase the price of labour. Arrive at Ostig. Arrive at Ostig. Dr. M'Pherson's Latin poetry. September 29. Reverend Mr. M'Pherson. Shenstone. Hammond. Sir Charles Hanbury Williams.

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. Doddridge. 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.

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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.

story of the people of St. Kilda.

Emigration.

Curious

October 3. Epictetus on the voyage of death. Sail for Mull. A

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October 4. Dr. Johnson's mode of living in the Temple. His curious appearance on a sheltie.

Nature of sea-sickness. Difference between dedi

Burnet's History of his own Times. cations and histories. October 5. People may come to do anything by talking of it. The Reverend Mr. Hector Maclean. Bayle. Leibnitz and Clarke. Survey of Col. Insular life. Arrive at Breacacha. Dr. Johnson's power of ridicule.

October 6. Heritable jurisdictions. The opinion of philosophers concerning happiness in a cottage, considered. Advice to landlords.

October 7.

October 8.

Books the best solace in a state of confinement.

Pretended brother of Dr. Johnson. No redress for a man's name being affixed to a foolish work. Lady Sidney Beauclerk. Carte's Life of the Duke of Ormond. Col's cabinet. Letters of the great Montrose. Present state of the isl

and of Col.

October 9. Dr. Johnson's avidity for a variety of books. Improbability of a Highland tradition. Dr. Johnson's delicacy of feeling. October 10. Dependence of tenants on landlords.

October II. London and Pekin compared. Dr. Johnson's high opinion of the former.

October 12.

Return to Mr. M'Sweyn's. Other superstitions beside those connected with religion. Dr. Johnson disgusted with coarse manners.

His peculiar habits.

October 13. Bustle not necessary to dispatch. Oats the food not of the Scotch alone.

October 14. Arrive in Mull. Addison's Remarks on Italy. Addison not much conversant with Italian literature. The French masters of the art of accommodating literature. Their Ana. Racine. Corneille. Moliere. Fenelon. Voltaire. Bossuet. Massillon. Bourdaloue. Virgil's description of the entrance into hell, compared to a printing-house.

October

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