CHAPTER I

1765-1767.

Boswell's Thesis.

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Study of the Law. Rash Vows.

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.

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State of Johnson's Mind. Visit to Town-malling. - Pro-

logue to Goldsmith's "Good-natured Man." Boswell

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

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pertuis. Woodcocks. Swallows. Bell's Travels.

Chastity. Choice of a Wife. Baretti's Italy. - Popular

Liberty. Kenrick.

Monsey. Swift.

Lord Eglintoune. — Letter on the Formation of a Library.

Boswell at the Stratford Jubilee. — Johnson's Opinion of

the "Account of Corsica."

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General Paoli.

Rousseau and

London Life.

Observance of Sunday.

Monboddo. Love of Singularity.

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.

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1769.

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1769-1770.

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"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.

Self-examination. - Visit to Lichfield—and Ashbourne.-

Baretti's Travels. Letters to Mrs. Thrale, Warton,

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Dr. Maxwell's Collectanea. Johnson's Politics, and general

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. — Père

Boscovich. Lord Lyttelton's Dialogues. Ossian.

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.

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CHAPTER V.

1770.

Sir A. Macdonald.

Lord Mansfield.

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CHAPTER VI.

1771.

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"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. ·

Act. Old Families. Mimicry. Foote.

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Royal Marriage

- Mr. Peyton.

· Origin of Languages.— Irish and Gaelic.— Flogging at

Schools. Lord Mansfield. Sir Gilbert Elliot.

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Choice of Chancellors.. Lord Coke.-

Scotch Accent.- Pronunciation.- Ety-

Disembodied Spirits Ghost Stories. Mrs

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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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Dinner at General Oglethorpe's.

Duelling.-Prince Eugene.— Siege of Belgrade.- Friend-

ships. Goldsmith's Natural History.-Story of Prender-

gast. Expulsion of Methodists from Oxford..

Sense of Touch

Veritas."- Education of the People..

in the Blind.—Theory of Sounds. - Taste in the Arts.

Francis Osborne's Works. Country Gentlemen. — Long

Advice to Authors.—

Stories. Beattie and Robertson.

Vicious Intromission.

Climate. Walpole and Pitt.

Beattie's Essay.-Visit to Lichfield and Ashbourne.

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CHAPTER VIII.

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· Armorial Bearings.

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Goldsmith

- Letters to Mrs. Thrale, &c.

and Evans the Bookseller.— Dalrymple's History.-- Action

in Speaking.-Chesterfield and Tyrawley.- The Spectator

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Sir Andrew Freeport. Burnet's Own Times.

Friday. Easter Day.- A Dinner at Johnson's. — Waga

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to Women Servants. — Keeping a Journal.

"The Gentle

Equality. The Stuarts. -Law Reports.-

Shepherd."-Whigs and Tories.-Sterne.-Charles Towns-

hend.-"Happy Revolution."-

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Garrick. Savage Life. Suicide.. Eustace Budgell. -

The Douglas Cause.

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Dinner at Topham Beauclerk's. Boswell elected of The

Club.

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Goldsmith in Company, and in his Study.

Roman History. "Talking for Victory.". Bunyan's

Pilgrim's Progress.

Butler.

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Patronage. The Bread Tree.- Savage Life.—Reasoning

of Brutes. Toleration.

Doctrine of the

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Trinity. Government of Ireland. Invocation of Saints.

- "Goldy." Literary Property. State of Nature.

Male Succession.

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Projected Visit to the Hebrides.

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1773.

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No. I. ARGUMENT IN ehalf 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

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