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and various Readings in, the Life of Cowley. - Waller.
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Congreve. — Tickell.
Young. Swift.
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CHAPTER II.
1781.
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. Sir 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 Resurrection.
ritions.
CHAPTER III.
Dinner at Mrs. Garrick's. - Miss Hannah More. - Mudge's
Barnard. -"Of Tory and Whig."— Visit to Welwyn.
Original Sin.-
Memory and Recollec-
tion. Marrying a pretty Woman. Thrale's Brewery.
Mr. Bewley. Johnson's Hearth-broom. Dr. Patten.
Death of Robert Levett.
terton. Dr. Lawrence. -
Chat-
Verses to his Memory.
Death of Friendship.-"Beau-
ties" and "Deformities" of Johnson.—Misery of being in
Debt. Six Rules for Travellers. Death of Lord Au-
chinleck. "Kindness and Fondness." — Life. · Old
Age. - Evils of Poverty.
Visit to Cowdry. - Nichols's "Anecdotes." Wilson's
"Archeological Dictionary."- Dr. Patten
Opium. — Exaggeration. - Neglect
of Merit.- Use of Riches. Crabbe's "Village."— Keep-
Thurlow. - Harrington's Nugæ Antiquæ. -"Quos Deus
vult perdere," &c.
- Prince of Wales. - Burney's Travels.
Chinese Architecture.
- Innovation.
Tyburn. - Dr.
Hurd. Parentheses. "Derrick or Smart."-"The
Owen Cambridge.
"Turkish Spy." - Orchards.
Origin of Language. Madness. Rev. James Comp-
ton
CHAPTER VI.
1783.
Population of London.- Natural Affection.
Self-defence.-
Duelling. Corpulency.. Government of India. - Re-
- Hospitality. — Miss Burney.
Barry's Pictures. Baxter's Works. Devotion.
Johnson attacked with a Stroke of the Palsy.
- Visit to Langton at Rochester
CHAPTER VII.
Recovery.
203
Philip Kemble. George Anne Bellamy. Lord Car-
lisle's Tragedy. Unconstitutional Influence of the Scotch
Peers. Old Horses. . · Mickle's "Lusiad.".
Drs. Cullen, Hope, and Monro. Divine
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VOL. VIII.
Foote. The Empress of Russia. Mrs. Thrale. Ec-
clesiastical Discipline.
Thomas à Kempis.
Capel Lofft.-
Dr. Douglas. -Editions of Horace.
Testimony. Helen
Maria Williams. Knotting. -'Oxford. Newton on
the Prophecies. - Nonjurors. Infidel Writers. Church
of Rome. Whig and Tory. — Miss Adams.
Pitt. Radcliffe's Travelling Fellowships.
Jeremy Taylor. — Iffley. — Dr. Nowell. Rev. Henry
Sackville Parker.- Cook's Voyages. — Barristers. — Lord
Hale. Attornies. - Puns.
"The Rehearsal." — Painting. — Cross Readings. — Last
Dinner at the Club. - Italy. - Free Will. - Miss Se-
ward. - Lord Chesterfield. Carleton's Memoirs. In-
Projected Tour to Italy. Reynolds. Thurlow. Rev. Mr. Bagshaw. · Excursion to Staffordshire and Derby.
shire.
Correspondence. - Air Balloons.
Last Visit to
Lichfield. Uttoxeter.- The Learned Pig.. - Last Visit
to Oxford. Return to London.
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