CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

1777-1778.

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Ashbourne. - Personal Disputes. Duke of Devonshire.

Burke's Definition of a Free Government. Ilam.

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Christian Revelation. - Mungo Campbell. - Dr. Taylor's

Bull-dog. -"Esop at play." Memory. Rochester's

and Virgil. Lord Bacon.

Grainger's "Ode on Solitude.".

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Topham Beauclerk.

Music. Happiness.

Future State. Slave Trade. - American Independence.

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- Corruption of Parliament. — Planting.

-"Oddity John-

son." - Decision of the Negro Cause. Mr. Saunders

Welch. Advice to Travellers.

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

Parliament-

ary Eloquence. Place Hunters. Irish Language.

Thicknesse's "Travels."— Honesty. Temptation. Dr.

Kennedy's Tragedy.. Shooting a Highwayman. — Mr.

Dunning. Contentment. Laxity of Narration. — Mrs.

Montagu. Harris of Salisbury. Definition. Wine-

drinking. Pleasure. Goldsmith. Charles the Fifth.

CHAPTER III.

1778.

Horace's Villa. Country Life.

Literature.

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Old Age. "Unius Lacertæ."- Potter's

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Eschylus. Pope's Homer.

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Sir W. Temple's Style.

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Elphinston's Martial. -Hawkins's Tragedy. — Insubordin-

Fame.

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Economy.

Use of Riches.

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and Sailors. - Charles Fox. - De Foe. -

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Soldiers/

Cock-Lane Ghost!

- Foreign Travel.

-Johnson and Percy.

Hand.-Dodd's Poems. - Pennant.

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Maccaronic Verses. Cookery Books.

Inequality of the Sexes. Degrees of Happiness.

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Friendship.

"Private Vices public Bene-

Mason's Prosecution of Mr.

Fear of Death. - Annihilation.

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· Future State of Existence.

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Wesley's Ghost Story.

Jane Harry. Change of Religion. Mrs. Knowles. 119.

lence of Wealth. — Extravagance. -"Demosthenes Taylor."

Modern Writers. Greece.

History.

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Age. Dr. Robertson.

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Interest of Money. — Imagination. - Existence.

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tue and Vice. The Bat. Lord Marchmont. "Tran-

spire."- House of Peers. Pope's "Universal Prayer."-

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Manners of the

Great. Horne's

- Native Modesty. - Foreign Travel.

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Lord Charlemont.

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Country Life.

"Letter to Dunning."— Dr. Mead - Rasselas and Can-

Francis's Horace. Modern Books of Travels.

Lord Chatham. - Vows. Education. - Milton's "Trac-

tate." — Locke. — Visit to Warley Camp. - Dr. Burney.

Sir Joshua Reynolds's " Discourses." Publication of

the "Lives of the Poets." Death of Garrick.

Wakefield." - Junius's Letters. Parental

London. - "Government of the Tongue."

-Easter Day. Eel-skinning. Claret, Port, Brandy. -

Shakspeare's Witches.

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Johnson and Topham Beauclerk. - Mallet.

Eulogy on Garrick. -"Art of getting

drunk.” — Empirics. — Parental Affection. Lord March-

Friendship.

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Stuart. · Choice of Guardians. Adventurers to the East

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- Pope's "Essay Man."-

Johnson's Residences in London.

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Conjugal Infidelity. Roman Catholics. Helps to the

Study of Greek. Middlesex Election. House of Com-

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- Right of Expulsion. George Whitfield. — Philip

Keeping Company with Infidels. - Irish Union.

"The Ambassador says well." -

"Lives of the Poets" completed. - Dr. Lawrence.- Loss of

- Mr. Melmoth. Fitzosborne's Letters. Somerset-

House Exhibition. Riots in London. Lord George

Gordon. Mr. Akerman. — Correspondence. - Dr. Beat-

tie. Davies's "Life of Garrick." Advice to a Young

Clergyman.

shire. - Burke's Definition of a Free Government.

Duke of Devon

· Ilam.

The Christian Revelation.

Mungo "Esop at

Campbell. Dr. Taylor's Bull-dog.

play."- Memory.

Rochester's Poems. Prior.–

Hypochondria. Books. Homer and Virgil.
Lord Bacon. Topham Beauclerk.

"Ode on Solitude." - Music.

- Happiness.

Grainger's -Future State. Slave Trade.-American Independence. · Corruption of Parliament.— Planting.— “ Oddity Johnson." Decision of the Negro Cause. Mr. Saunders Welch. - Advice to Travellers.- Correspondence.

ON Monday, September 22., when at breakfast, I unguardedly said to Dr. Johnson, "I wish I saw you and Mrs. Macaulay together." He grew very angry; and, after a pause, while a cloud gathered on his brow, he burst out, "No, Sir; you would not see us quarrel, to make you sport. Don't you know that it is very uncivil to pit two people against