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THE

LIFE

OF

SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.

CHAPTER I.

1777 -1778.

Ashbourne. - Personal Disputes. - Duke of Devonshire. - Burke's Definition of a Free Government. Ilam. - The Christian Revelation. - Mungo Campbell. Dr. Taylor'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. - 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

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