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CONTENTS.
Boswell's Thesis.
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Streatham. Oxford. London Improvements. -Dedi
cations. Mrs. Williams's Miscellanies. Mr. William
Drummond. - Translation of the Bible into the Gaelic.
Case of Heely.-Dr. Robertson.-Cuthbert Shaw. -Tom
Hervey.' - Johnson's Interview with King George III.
Warburton and Lowth.. Lord Lyttelton's History. Dr.
Hill. Literary Journals. Visit to Lichfield. - Death of
Catherine Chambers.- Lexiphanes.-Mrs. Aston. Page 1
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CHAPTER II.
1768.
State of Johnson's Mind. - Visit to Town-malling.
Pro-
Boswell
logue to Goldsmith's "Good-natured Man."
publishes his "Account of Corsica."— Practice of the Law.
-Novels and Comedies. The Douglas Cause. Reading
MSS. St. Kilda. · Oxford. Guthrie. Hume.
Robertson.- Future Life of Brutes.
- Scorpions. — Mau
pertuis. Woodcocks. Swallows. Bell's Travels.
Choice of a Wife. - Baretti's Italy. - Popular
Chastity.
Lord Eglintoune. - Letter on the Formation of a Library.
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. Montagu's Essay. - Lord Kames. -
Burke. - Ballad of Hardyknute.- Fear of Death.-Sym-
pathy with Distress.-Foote.-Buchanan.-Baretti's Trial.
Mandeville.
CHAPTER IV.
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1769-1770.
"Making Fools of one's Visiters." - Trade. Mrs. Williams's
Tea-table.-James Ferguson.- Medicated Baths.— " Cod-
dling" Children. — 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.
- Visit to Lichfield — and Ashbourne.-
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CHAPTER V.
Dr. Maxwell's Collectanea.
1770.
-Johnson's Politics, and general
- Père
Mode of Life. Opulent Tradesmen.- London. - Black-
letter Books. -"Anatomy of Melancholy."— Government
of Ireland.Love.-Jacob Behmen.- Established Clergy.
- Dr. Priestley.- Blank Verse.- French Novels.
Boscovich.
Ossian.
Lord Lyttelton's Dialogues.
Woodhouse, the poetical Shoemaker. 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.
CHAPTER VI.
1771.
"Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting Falkland's
Islands."- Lord George Grenville. — Junius. — Design of
bringing Johnson into Parliament. Mr. Strahan. - Lord
North. Mr. Flood.-Boswell's Marriage.-Visit to Lich-
field and Ashbourne. Dr. Beattie.- Lord Monboddo.-
St. Kilda. Scots Church.- Second Sight. The Thirty-
nine Articles. Thirtieth of January.— Royal Marriage
- Mr. Peyton.
- Origin of Languages.— Irish and Gaelic.— Flogging at
Schools.
Veal. Gray, Mason, and Akenside. — Swearing. — War-
ton's Essay on Pope.
Ranelagh.-Luxury. Inequality
of Livings. Hon. Thomas Erskine. Fielding and
Richardson. Coriat's Crudities. Gaming. Earl of
Buchan.-Attachment between Relations.-Feudal System.
- Cave's Ghost Story. - Witches.
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CHAPTER VIII.
1772-1773.
Dinner at General Oglethorpe's. Armorial Bearings.
Duelling.-Prince Eugene.-Siege of Belgrade.- Friend-
ships. - Goldsmith's Natural History.-Story of Prender-
gast. - Expulsion of Methodists from Oxford.
Veritas." Education of the People.
in the Blind.
Theory of Sounds.
Francis Osborne's Works. Country Gentlemen. - Long
Stories. Beattie and Robertson. - Advice to Authors.-
Climate.
Vicious Intromission.
Walpole and Pitt.
Beattie's Essay.-Visit to Lichfield and Ashbourne.
and Evans the Bookseller.- Dalrymple's History.-- Action
in Speaking.-Chesterfield and Tyrawley.- The Spectator
Sir Andrew Freeport. Burnet's Own Times.
Friday. Easter Day.—A Dinner at Johnson's. -Waga
to Women Servants.
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 Playing
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on the Fiddle. Duelling. Lord Chatham's Verses to
Suicide. Eustace Budgell. -
Garrick. Savage Life.
The Douglas Cause.
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CHAPTER X.
1773.
Dinner at Topham Beauclerk's. Boswell elected of The
Goldsmith in Company, and in his Study. — His
Roman History.
Pilgrim's Progress.
Butler..
Patronage.
of Brutes.
"Talking for Victory.'
"The Whole Duty of Man."- Puns. — Lay
The Bread Tree.- Savage Life.-Reasoning
- Toleration. Martyrdom. Doctrine of the
Trinity. Government of Ireland. — Invocation of Saints.
-"Goldy.". Literary Property. State of Nature. ·
Male Succession. · - Influence of the Seasons on the Mind.
- Projected Visit to the Hebrides.
No. I. ARGUMENT IN BEHALF OF HASTIE, THE SCHOOL-
MASTER, PROSECUTED FOR UNDUE SEVERITY.
No. II. ARGUMENT IN FAVOUR OF THE SCOTTISH LAW
DOCTRINE OF "VICIOUS INTROMISSION."
No. III. ARGUMENT IN DEFENCE OF LAY PATRONAGE. 319