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CHAPTER X. 1752, 1753.
Progress of the Dictionary. Conclusion of the Rambler.
Death of Mrs. Johnson. Prayer on that Occasion. In-
scription. Epitaph. Francis Barber. Robert Levett.
Sir Joshua Reynolds. Bennet Langton. Topham Beau-
clerk. Johnson's Share in "The Adventurer"
Page 74
CHAPTER XI. 1754.
Johnson's "Life of Cave." The Dictionary. Lord Chester-
field. His alleged Neglect. Letter to Lord Chesterfield.
Bolingbroke's Works. Johnson visits Oxford. Warton's
Recollections. Sir Robert Chambers. Letters to Warton.
Collins
84
CHAPTER XII. 1755-1758.
Johnson M. A. by Diploma. Correspondence with Warton
and the Authorities of the University. Publication of the
Dictionary. Remarkable Definitions. Abridgment of the
Dictionary. The Universal Visiter. The Literary Ma-
gazine. Defence of Tea. Pulpit Discourses. Proposals
for an Edition of Shakspeare. Jonas Hanway. Soame
Jenyns. Charles Burney
91
Johnson's
CHAPTER XIII. 1758-1759.
"The Idler." Letters to Warton and Langton.
Mother. Letters to her, and to Miss Porter. Her Death.
"Rasselas." Miscellanies. Excursion to Oxford. Francis
Barber. Wilkes. Smollet. Mrs. Montagu. Mrs. Ogle.
Mylne the Architect
- 110
CHAPTER XIV. 1760-1763.
Miscellaneous Essays. Acquaintance with Murphy. Aken-
side and Rolt. Mackenzie and Eccles. Letters to Baretti.
Painting and Music. Sir George Staunton. Letter to a
John-
Lady soliciting Church Preferment for her Son.
son's Pension. Letters to Lord Bute. Visit to Devon-
shire with Sir Joshua Reynolds. Collins
119
CHAPTER XV. 1763.
-
Derrick. Mr.
Boswell becomes acquainted with Johnson.
Thomas Sheridan. Mrs. Sheridan. Mr. Thomas Davies.
Mrs Davies. First interview. Johnson's Dress.
His
Chambers in Temple Lane. Dr. Blair. Dr. James Fordyce.
Ossian. Christopher Smart. Johnson, the Equestrian.
Clifton's Eating House. The Mitre. Colley Cibber's Odes.
Gray. Belief in Apparitions. Cock-Lane Ghost. Churchill.
Goldsmith. Mallet's "Elvira." Scotch Landlords. Plan
of Study
- 131
CHAPTER XVI. 1763.
Suppers at the Mitre. Dr. John Campbell. Churchill.
Bonnell Thornton. Burlesque "Ode on St. Cecilia's
Day." The Connoisseur. The World. Miss Williams's
Tea Parties. London. Miss Porter's Legacy. "The
King can do no wrong." Historical Composition. Bayle.
Arbuthnot. The noblest Prospect in Scotland. Rhyme.
Adam Smith. Jacobitism. Lord Hailes. Keeping a
Journal.
The King of Prussia's Poetry.
Library. "Not at Home." Pity. Style of Hume. In-
equality of Mankind. Constitutional Goodness. Miracles.
Acquaintance of Young People. Hard Reading. Me-
lancholy. Mrs Macaulay. Warton's Essay on Pope.
Sir James Macdonald. Projected Tour to the Hebrides.
School-boy Happiness
142
CHAPTER XVII. 1763.
Table-Talk. Influence of the Weather. Swift. Thomson.
Burke. Sheridan. Evidences of Christianity, Derrick.
Day at Greenwich. The Methodists. Johnson's "Walk."
Convocation. Blacklock. Johnson accompanies Boswell
to Harwich. The Journey. "Good Eating." "Abstinence
and Temperance." Johnson's favourite Dishes. Bishop
Berkeley refuted." Burke. Boswell sails for Holland
154
State of Johnson's Mind. Visit to Town-Malling. Prologue
to Goldsmith's "Goo l-natured Man." Boswell's "Ac-
count of Corsica." Practice of the Law. Novels and
Comedies. The Douglas Cause. Reading MSS. St.
Kilda. Oxford. Guthrie. Hume. Robertson. Future
Life of Brutes. Natural History. Bell's Travels.
Chastity. Choice of a Wife. Baretti's Italy. Liberty.
Kenrick. Thomson. Monsey. Swift. Lord Eglintoune.
Letter on the Formation of a Library. Boswell at the
Stratford Jubilee. Johnson's Opinion of his "Corsica"
188
CHAPTER XXII. 1769.
Boswell at the Jubilee. His Account of Corsica. General
Paoli. Observance of Sunday. Rousseau and Monboddo.
Love of Singularity. London Life. Artemisias. Second
Marriages. Scotch Gardening. Vails. Prior. Garrick's
Poetry. History. Whitfield. The Corsicans. Good
Breeding Fate and Free-will. Goldsmith's Tailor. The
Dunciad. Dryden. Congreve. Sheridan. Mrs. Monta-
gu's Essay. Lord Kames. Burke. Ballad of Hardyk-
nute. Fear of Death. Sympathy with Distress. Foote.
Buchanan. Baretti's Trial. Mandeville
198
CHAPTER XXIII. 1769-1770.
"Foote." Trade. Mrs. Williams's Tea-table. James Fer-
guson. Medicated Baths. Population of Russia. Large
Farms.
Attachment to Soil. Roman Catholic Religion.
Conversion to Popery. Fear of Death. Steevens. "Tom
Tyers." Blackmore's "Creation." The Marriage Service.
The False Alarm." Percival Stockdale. Sell-examina.
tion. Visit to Lichfield and Ashbourne. Baretti's
Travels. Letters to Mrs. Thrale, Warton, &c.
- 207
CHAPTER XXIV. 1770.
Dr. Maxwell's Collectanea. Johnson's Politics, and general
Mode of Life. Opulent Tradesinen. London. Black-
letter Books. "Anatomy of Melancholy." Government
of Ireland. Love. Jacob Behmen. Established Clergy.
Dr. Priestley. Blank Verse. French Novels. Père Bos-
covich. Lord Lyttelton's Dialogues. Ossian. The Poet-
ical Cobbler. Boetius. National Debt. Mallet. Marriage.
Foppery. Gilbert Cooper. Homer. Gregory Sharpe.
Poor of England. Corn Laws. Dr. Browne. Mr. Burke.
Economy. Fortune-hunters. Orchards. Irish Clergy 215
CHAPTER XXV. 1771.
"Pamphlet on Falkland's Islands." George Grenville.
Junius. Design of bringing Johnson into Parliament.
Mr. Strahan. Lord North. Mr. Flood. Boswell's Mar-
riage Visit to Lichfield and Ashbourne. Dr. Beattie.
Lord Monboddo. St Kilda. Scots Church. Second
Sight. The Thirty-nine Articles. Thirtieth of January.
Royal Marriage Act. Old Families. Mimickry. Foote.
Mr. Peyton. Origin of Languages. Irish and Gaelic.
Flogging at Schools. Lord Manstield. Sir Gilbert Elliot
221.
CHAPTER XXVI. 1772.
Sir A. Macdonald. Choice of Chancellors. Lord Coke.
Lord Mansfield. Scotch Accent. Pronunciation. Ety-
mology. Disembodied Spirits. Ghost Stories. Mrs. Veal.
Gray, Mason, and Akenside. Swearing. Warton's Essay
on Pope. Pantheon. Luxury. Inequality of Livings.
Hon Thomas Erskine. Fielding and Richardson.
Coriat's Crudities. Gaming. Earl of Buchan, Attach-
ment in Families. Feudal System. Cave's Ghost Story
Witches -
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CHAPTER XXVII. 1772-1773.
Armorial Bearings. Duelling. Prince Eugene. Siege of
Belgrade. Friendships. Goldsmith's Natural History.
Story of Prendergast. Expulson of Methodists from
Oxford. "In Vino Veritas." Education of the People.
Sense of Touch in the Blind. Theory of Sounds. Taste
in the Arts. Francis Osborne's Works. Country Gentle-
inen. Long Stories. Beattie and Robertson. Advice to
Authors. Climate. Walpole and Pitt. Vicious Intromis-
sion. Beattie's Essay. Visit to Lichfield and Ashbourne
CHAPTER XXVIII. 1773.
239
George Steevens. Goldsmith and Evans. Dalrymple's His-
tory. Action in Speaking. Chesterfield and Tyrawley.
Burnet's Own
The Spectator. Sir Andrew Freeport.
Times. Good Friday. Easter Day. A Dinner at Johnson's.
Wages to Women Servants. Keeping a Journal. Luxury.
Equality. The Stuarts. Law Reports. "The Gentle
Shepherd." Whigs and Tories. Sterne. Charles Towns-
hend. Happy Revolution." "She Stoops to Conquer."
Short-Hand. Dedications. James Harris. The Fiddle.
Duelling. Lord Chatham's Verses to Garrick. Savage
Life. Suicide. Budgell. The Douglas Cause
246
CHAPTER XXIX. 1773.
Dinner at Beauclerk's. Boswell elected of the Club. Gold-
smith in Company, and in his Study. His Roman History.
"Talking for Victory." Pilgrim's Progress. Monuments
in St. Paul's. Pope. Milton. "The Whole Duty of
Man." Puns. Lay Patronage. The Bread Tree. Savage
Life.
Martyrdom.
Reasoning of Brutes. Toleration.
Doctrine of the Trinity. Government of Ireland. Invoca-
tion of Saints. "Goldy." Literary Property. State of
Nature. Male Succession. Influence of the Seasons on
the Mind. Projected Visit to the Hebrides
CHAPTER XXX. 1773.
257
Johnson sets out on his visit to the Hebrides. Sketch of his
Character, Figure, and Manner. He arrives in Scotland.
Memorabilia. Law of Prescription. Trial by Duel. Mr.
Scott. Sir William Forbes. Practice of the Law. Emi.
gration. Rev. Mr. Carr. Chief Baron Orde. Dr. Beattie
and Mr. Hume. Dr. Robertson. Mr. Burke. Genius.
Whitfield and Wesley. Political Parties. Garrick - 267
CHAPTER XXXI. 1773.
Edinburgh. Ogden on Prayer. Lord Hailes. Parliament
House. The Advocates' Library. Writing doggedly.
The Union. Queen Mary St. Giles's The Cowgate.
The College. Holyrood House. Swift. Witchcraft. Lord
Monboddo and the Ouran-Outang. Actors. Poetry and
Lexicography. Scepticism, Vane and Sedley. Maclaurin,
Literary Property. Boswell's Character of Himself.
They leave Edinburgh
275
CHAPTER XXXII. 1773.
Frith of Forth. Inch Keith. Kinghorn. Cupar. Com-
position of Parliament. Influence of Peers. St. Andrews.
Literature and Patronage. Writing and Conversation.
Change of Manners. Drinking and Smoking. The
Union. St. Rule's Chapel. John Knox. Retirement
from the World. Dinner with the Professors. Subscrip-
tion of Articles. Latin Grace. Sharpe's Monument. St.
Salvador's. Dinner to the Professors. Instructions for
Composition. Supper at Dr. Watson's. Uncertainty of
Memory. Observance of Sunday. Trees in Scotland.
Leuchars. Transubstantiation. Literary Property.
Montrose
280
Ulinish. Tanning. Butchers, Learning of the Scots.
Ship worse than Jail. Peter the Great. "Island Isa."
Talisker. Scottish Clergy. French Hunting. Cuchillin's
Well. Young Col. Birch. Percy. "Every Island is a
Prison." Corrichatachin. Good Fellowship- and Head.
ache. Kingsburgh's Song. Lady Margaret Macdonald.
Threshing and Thatching. Price of Labour. Ostig.
Shenstone. Hammond. Sir C. H. Williams. Burke.
Young. Doddridge's Motto. "Adventures of a Guinea."
Armidale. German Courts. Goldsmith's Love of Talk.
St. Kilda
CHAPTER XLI. 1773.
348
Col. Blenheim. Tenants and Landlords. London and
Pekin. Superstitions. Coarse Manners. Bustle not ne-
cessary to Despatch. Oats. Mull. Addison. French
Ana. Racine. Corneille. Molière. Fenelon. Voltaire.
Bossuet. Massillon. Bourdaloue. A Printing House.
Erse Poetry. Music. Reception of Travellers. Spence.
Miss Maclean. Account of Mull. Ulva. Second Sight.
Mercheta Mulierum. Inch-Kenneth. Sir Allan Maclean.
Sunday Reading. Dr. Campbell. Drinking. Verses on
Inch-Kenneth. Young Col's good Qualities. Solander.
Burke. Johnson's Intrepidity. Singular Customs. French
Credulity
369
CHAPTER XLIII. 1773.
Voyage to Iona. Death of young Col. M'Kinnon's Cave.
"La Crédulité des Incrédules." Coast of Mull. Nuns'
Island. Icolmkill. Quotation from Johnson's Tour.
Pitt.
Return to Mull. Pulteney.
Walpole. Wilkes.
English and Jewish History compared. "Turkish Spy."
Moy. Lochbuy's War-saddle. Sheep's-heads. Sail to
Oban. Goldsmith's "Traveller." Shenstone's Observa-
tions on Pope. Inverary. Letter from Garrick. Hervey's
"Meditations." Meditation on a Pudding." Country
Neighbours. Castle of Inverary. Duke and Duchess of
Argyle. Influence of Peers -
Page 380
Inverary Castle. Bishop Archibald Campbell. Douglas.
Juvenal. Religious Buildings. Rosedow House. Loch-
lomond. Cameron House. Smollett's Monument. Glas-
gow. The Foulises, &c. Loudoun Castle. Treesbank.
Dundonald Castle. Eglintoune Castle. Auchinleck. Bos-
well's Father. Anecdotes. Hamilton. Edinburgh · 388
CHAPTER XLIV. 1773.
Edinburgh. Lord Elibank. Edinburgh Castle. Fingal.
Credulity. Second Sight. Garrick and Foote as Com-
panions. Moravian Missions and Methodism. History.
Robertson. Rebellion. Lord Mansfield. Richardson.
Private Life of a Judge. Blair. Boswell's Imitations.
Officers of the Army. Academy for Deaf and Dumb.
Scotch Highlander and English Sailor. Roslin and Haw-
thornden. Cranston. Sir John Dalrymple. Johnson's
Departure for London, Letters from Lord Hailes and
Mr. Dempster. Correspondence with Rasay. Conclusion
of the Tour to the Hebrides
398
CHAPTER XLVII. 1774-1775.
Mr. Thrale's Political Position. Johnson's "Patriot."
Death of young Col. Mr. Perkins. Hoole's Tragedy.
Charlotte Lennox. Baretti's Easy Lessons." Case of
Dr. Memis. Lord Hailes's "Annals." Mary Queen of
Scots. American Politics. Ossian. Letter to Macpher-
son. Personal Courage. Foote. Publishes" Journey to
the Western Islands." Mr. Knox. Mr. Tytler. Mr.
Windham. Irish and Scotch Impudence compared. Ossian
Controversy. Visit to Oxford
425
CHAPTER XLVIII. 1775.
Boswell revisits London. Peter Garrick. "Taxation no
Tyranny." Dr. Towers's "Answer." Gerard Hamilton.
Sheridan's Gold Medal to Home. Mrs. Abington. Cibber's
"Nonjuror." Boswell's "Surveillance." Garrick's Pro-
logues. The Adams. Garrick's Imitations of Johnson.
Gray's Odes. Lord Chesterfield's Letters. Johnson's
Diploma of LL.D. Aby sinian Bruce. Colman's " Odes
to Obscurity and Oblivion." Mason's Elfrida," and
"Caractaens." The Bath-Easton Vase. Fleet Street and
Charing Cross
434
CHAPTER XLIX. 1775.
Public Speaking. Statutes against Bribery. Cibber's Come-
dies. Gentility and Morality. Charles 11. George I.
Trading Judges. Christopher Smart. Twiss's Travels.
Addison's Italy. "Lilliburlero." Gibbon. Patriotism.
Mrs. Pritchard. Happiness. General Oglethorpe. Mid-
dle-rate Poets. Patronage. Lord Bute. Good Friday.
London. Commerce. Value of Knowledge. Literary Fame.
Infidelity. "Nil admirari." Advantages of Reading - 443
Popish Corruptions. Licensed Stews. Seduction. "Jack
Ellis." Gaming. Card-playing. Conjugal Obligations.
Law of Usury. Beggars. Dr. Cheyne. Solitude. Joseph
Simpson. Children. Cowley Flatman's Poems. Cib-
ber's "Lives." Gray. Akenside. Mason. The Reviews.
Lord Lyttelton. "The Spectator." Dr. Barry. Dinner
at General Paoli's. "Abel Drugger." Italy. The Medi-
terranean. Poetical Translatio.. Art of Printing. Edu-
cation of the People. Thomson. "Hudibras." Purpose
of Tragedy." Othello." John Dennis. Swearing. Wine-
drinking. Cumberland's " Odes
499
CHAPTER LVI. 1776.
Boswell's Visit to Bath and Bristol. Rowley's Poems,
Chatterton Garrick's" Archer." Brute Creation. Ches-
terfield's "Letters." Notes on Shakspeare. Luxury.
Oglethorpe. Lord Elibank. Conversation. Egotism.
Dr. Oldfield. Commentators on the Bible. Thompson's
Case. Dinner at Mr. Dilly's. John Wilkes. Foote's
Mimicry. Garrick's Wit. Biography. Dryden. Cibber's
Plays. "Difficile est propriè," &c. City Poets. "Dia-
bolus Regis." Lord Bute. Mrs. Knowles. Mrs. Rudd 509
CHAPTER LIX. 1777.
Boswell at Ashbourne. Grief for Relatives and Friends.
Incomes of Curates. Johnson's Interference for Dr. Dodd.
Mr. Fitzherbert. Hamilton of Bangour. Bleeding.
Hume. Fear of Death. Duties of a Biographer. Stuart
Family. Birth-days. Warton's Poems
Page 539
CHAPTER LX. 1777.
Keddlestone. Derby. Shaving. Nichols's "De Animá
Medica." Dr. Dodd. Blair. Goldsmith. Monboddo's
"Air-bath." Early-rising. Sleep. Water-drinking.
Rutty's "Spiritual Diary." Autobiographers. Imitators
of Johnson's Style. Biographia Britannica. Melancholy
and Madness. London Life. Profession of the Law. Em-
Actors
ployment. Dr. Taylor's" Sermons."
- 548
CHAPTER LXI. 1777-1778.
Personal disputes. Duke of Devonshire. Burke's Defi-
nition of a Free Government. Ilam. The Christian
Revelation. Mungo Campbell. Dr. Tavlor's Bull-dog.
"Esop at play." Memory. Rochester's Poems. Prior.
Hypochondria. Books. Homer and Virgil. Lord Bacon.
Topham Beauclerk. Grainger's "Ode on Solitude."
Music. Happiness. Future State. Slave Trade. Ameri-
can Independence. Corruption of Parliament. Planting.
"Oddity Johnson." Decision of the Negro Cause.
Mr. Saunders Welch. Advice to Travellers. Corre-
spondence
556
CHAPTER LXII. 1778.
Inmates of Bolt Court. Tom Davies. Counsel at the Bar
of the House of Commons. Thomas à Kempis. Uses of a
Diary. Strict Adherence to Truth. Ghosts. John Wes-
ley. Alcibiades' Dog. Emigration. Parliamentary Elo-
quence. Place Hunters. Irish Language. Thicknesse's
Travels." Honesty. Temptation. Dr. Kennedy's Tra-
gedy. Shooting a Highwayman. Mr. Dunning." Con-
tentment. Laxity of Narration. Mrs. Montagu. Harris
of Salisbury. Definition. Wine-drinking. Pleasure.
Goldsmith. Charles the Fifth. Best English Sermons.
"Seeing Scotland." Absenteeism. Delany's "Observa-
tions on Swift"
570
CHAPTER LXIII. 1778.
Horace's Villa. Country Life. Great Cities. French
Literature. Old Age. "Unius Lacertæ." Potter's Es-
chylus. Pope's Homer. Sir W. Temple's Style. Elphin-
ston's Martial. Hawkins's Tragedy. Insubordination.
Fame. Use of Riches. Economy. Soldiers and Sailors.
Charles Fox. De Foe. Cock-Lane Ghost. Asking
Questions. Hulks. Foreign Travel. Short Hand.
Dodd's Poems. Pennant. Johuson and Percy. Streatham.
Correspondence
579
CHAPTER LXIV. 1778.
"Chapter concerning Snakes." Styles in Painting and
Writing. George Steevens. Luxury. Different Govern-
ments. Maccaronic Verses. Cookery Books. Inequality
of the Sexes. Degrees of Happiness. Soame Jenyns's
"Internal Evidence." Courage. Friendship. Free Will.
Mandeville. "Private Vices, public Benefits." Hannah
More. Mason's Prosecution of Mr. Murray the Bookseller.
Fear of Death. Annihilation. Future State of Existence.
Wesley's Ghost Story. Jaue Harry. Change of Religion.
Mrs. Knowles -
CHAPTER LXV. 1778.
589
Good Friday. Bad Housewifery. Books of Travels. Fleet
Street. Meeting with Mr. Oliver Edwards. Lawyers.
Tom Tyers. Choice of a Profession. Dignity of Litera-
ture. Lord Camden. George Psalmanazar. Daines
Barrington. Punishment of the Pillory. Insolence of
Wealth. Extravagance. "Demosthenes Taylor."
Pamphlets. Goldsmith's Comedies. The Beggars' Ópera.
Johnson's His oria Studiorum." Gentleman's Magazine.
Avarice. Bon Mots. Burke's Classical Pun. Egotism.
CHAPTER LXVI. 1778.
597
Buying Buckles." The first Whig. Wine. Tasso, Homer.
Adam Smith. Pope. Voltaire. Henry's History, Modern
Writers. Greece. Rome. Old Age. Dr. Robertson.
Addison. Chinese Language. Interest of Money. Ima-
gination. Existence. Virtue and Vice. The Bat. Lord
Marchmont. "Transpire." House of Peers. Pope's
"Universal Prayer." Divorces. Parson Ford's Ghost.
Lord Clive
605
Sir
Warren Hastings. Liberty and Necessity. Picture of a Man,
by Shakspeare and by Milton. Registration of Deeds.
Duty of a Member of Parliament. Deportment of a
Bishop. "Merriment of Parsons. " Zachariah Mudge.
Dr. Walter Harte. Scale of Liquors. Dancing.
Philip Jennings Clerk. American War. Dudley Long.
Exaggerated Praise. "Learning to Talk." Veracity.
Death of Mr. Thrale. Queen's Arms Club. Constructive
Treason. Castes of Men. Passion Week. Addison.
Blackstone. Steele. Educating by Lectures. The Re-
surrection. Apparitions
675
CHAPTER LXXIII. 1781.
Dinner at Mrs. Garrick's. Miss Hannah More. Mudge's
"Sermons." A Printer's Devil. Quotation, Letter.
writing. Bet Flint. Oratory. Beauclerk's Library. En-
glish Sermons. Blue-Stocking Clubs. Miss Monckton.
Talking for Victory. A Cui Bono Man. Heroic Epistle.'
Lord Carlisle's Poems. Dr. Barnard. "Of Tory and
Whig." Visit to Welwyn. Dr. Young. Trusting to
Impressions. Original Sín. Ancient Egyptians. Wealth.
Meinory and Recollection. Marrying a pretty Woman.
Thrale's Brewery. Mr. Bewley. Johnson's Hearth-
broom. Dr. Patten. Visit to Ashbourne and Lichfield
685
CHAPTER LXXIV. 1782.
Death of Robert Levett. Verses to his Memory. Chatterton.
Dr. Lawrence. Death of Friendship. "Beauties" and
"Deformities" of Johnson. Misery of being in Debt.
Six Rules for Travellers. Death of Lord Auchinleck.
"Kindness and Fondness." Life. Old Age. Evils of
Poverty. Prayer on leaving Streatham. Visit to Cowdrey.
Nichols's" Anecdotes." Wilson's Archæological Dic-
tionary." Dr. Patten
Page 700
CHAPTER LXXV. 1783.
Country Gentleman. House of Hanover, Conversation.
Lies of Vanity. Opium. Exaggeration. Neglect of
Merit. Use of Riches. Crabbe's "
Village." Keeping
Accounts. Lords Mansfield, Loughborough, and Thurlow.
Harrington's Nugæ Antiquæ. "Quos Deus vult perdere,"
&c. Prince of Wales. Burney's Travels. Chinese Ar-
chitecture. Innovation. Tyburn. Dr. Hurd. Paren-
thesis. "Derrick or Smart." "The great Twalmley."
Owen Cambridge. Family Histories. Turkish Spy."
Oratory. Origin of Language.
Orchards.
Rev. James Compton
Madness.
712
Self-defence.
CHAPTER LXXVI. 1783.
Population of London. Natural Affection.
Duelling. Corpulency. Government of India. Reviewers.
Horace. Sickness. Liberty of Teaching. "Alias."
Virgil. Cant. Hospitality. Miss Burney. Barry's Pic-
tures. Baxter's Works. Devotion. Johnson attacked
with a Stroke of the Palsy. Recovery. Visit to Langton
at Rochester
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