CONTENTS.

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INTRODUCTION. Character of Dr. Johnson. He arrives

1 to 13

in Scotland

August 15. Sir William Forbes. Practice of the law. Emi-

gration, Dr. Beattie and Mr. Hume. Dr. Robert-

son. Mr. Burke's various and extraordinary talents.

Question concerning genius. Whitfield and Wesley.

Instructions to political parties. Dr. Johnson's opi-

nion 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 and the

Ouran-Outang..

August 17. Poetry and Dictionary-writing.

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26

Scepticism.

Eternal necessity refuted. Lord Hailes's criticism on

The Vanity of Human Wishes. Mr. Maclaurin. De-

cision of the Judges in Scotland on literary pro-

34

perty..

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. An-

drews

.....

39

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

August 20. Effect of prayer.

.. 47

Observance of Sunday.

Professor Shaw. Transubstantiation. Literary pro-.

perty. Mr. Tyers's remark on Dr. Johnson. Ar-

rive at Montrose

... 56

August 21. Want of trees. Laurence Kirk. Dinner

at Monboddo. Emigration. Homer. Biography

and history compared. Decrease of learning. Cau-

ses of it. Promotion of bishops. Warburton.

Lowth. Value of Politeness. Dr. Johnson's senti-

ments 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. Im-
portance of old friendships.
...72

...

61

78

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..

84

93

August 25. The advantage of being on good terms with

relations. Nabobs. Feudal state of subordination.

Dinner at Strichen. Life of country gentlemen.

THE LITERARY CLUB...

August 26. Lord Monboddo. Use and importance of

wealth. Elgin. Macbeth's heath. Fores...... 98

August 27. Leonidas. Paul Whitehead. Derrick. Ori-

gin of Evil. Calder-manse. Reasonableness of eccle-

siastical subscription. Family worship

104

August 28. Fort George. Sir Adolphus Oughton. Con-

test 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..
... 109

August 29. Macbeth's Castle. Incorrectness of writers of

Travels. Coinage of new words. Dr. Johnson's

.. 116

Dictionary

August 30. Dr. Johnson on horse-back. A Highland

hut. Fort Augustus. Governour Trapaud .... 119

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 ......128

September 2. Dr. Johnson relents. Isle of Sky. Armi-

dale...

.... 123

136

September 3. Colonel Montgomery, now Earl of Eglin-

toune

...

138

September 4. Ancient Highland Enthusiasm........ 140

September 5. Sir James Macdonald's epitaph and last letter
to his mother. Dr. Johnson's Latin ode on the Isle of
Sky. Isaac Hawkins Browne..
ibid.
September 6. Corrichatachin. Highland hospitality and
mirth. Dr. Johnson's Latin ode to Mrs. Thrale.

145

148

September 7. Uneasy state of dependence on the weather.

State of those who live in the country. Dr. M'Pher-

son'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. Hooke. Duchess of Marlborough.... 159

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157

September 11. Heritable jurisdictions. Insular life. The

on death.

.... 168

Laird of M'Cleod....

September 12. Sail to Portree. Dr. Johnson's discourse

Letters from Lord Elibank to Dr. Johnson

and the authour. Dr. Johnson's answer. Ride to

Kingsburgh. Flora M'Donald. ...

.... 170

.....

178

Dr.

206

September 13. Distresses and escape of the grandson of

King James II. Arrive at Dunvegan.

September 14. Importance of the chastity of women.

Cadogan. Whether the Practice of authours is neces-

sary to enforce their Doctrines. Good humour ac-

quirable

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

knowledge and eloquence.

September 16. Dr. Johnson's hereditary

His minute knowledge in various arts.

the authour's ardour in his pursuits.

imaginary seraglio. Polygamy....

210

melancholy.

Apology for

Dr. Johnson's

212

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.....

.. 216

September 18. Ancient residence of a Highland Chief.

Languages the pedigree of nations.

Isle of Muck....

September 19. Choice of a wife.

Choice of a wife.

for men. Lady Grange in

savages. French Literati.

Laird of the

222

Women an over-match

St. Kilda. Poetry of

Prize fighting.

and English soldiers. Duelling..

French

227

September 20. Change of London manners. Laziness

censured. Landed and traded interest compared.

Gratitude considered..

231

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

......

234

Ulinish. Swift's Lord Orrery. Defects as well as

biography, though the

Studied conclusions of

dying men to main-

Instructions for writing

238

virtues the proper subject of

life was written by a friend.

letters. Whether allowable in

tain resentment to the last.

the lives of literary men. Fingal denied to be genuine,

and pleasantly ridiculed..

September 23. Further disquisition concerning Fingal.

Eminent men discovered 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 Scot-

land till the Union. Life of a sailor. The folly of

Peter the Great in working in a dock-yard. Ar-

rive at Talisker. Presbyterian clergy deficient in

learning

September 24. French hunting. Young Col. Dr. Birch,

Dr. Percy. Lord Hailes. Historical impartiality.

Whiggism unbecoming in a clergyman..

September 25. Every island a prison. A Sky cottage.

Return to Corrichatachin. Good fellowship carried

to excess

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243

256

259

.. 263

September 26. Morning review of last night's intempe-

rance. 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.

September 28. Ancient Irish pride of family. Dr. Johnson

... 266

on threshing and thatching. Dangerous to increase

the Price of labour, Arrive at Ostig. Dr. M'Pher-

son' Latin poetry
... 268

September 29. Reverend Mr. M'Pherson. Shenstone.
Hammond. Sir Charles Hanbury Williams.... 273