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THE

LIFE

OF

SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.

INCLUDING

A JOURNAL OF HIS TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES;

BY

JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ.

NEW EDITION,

WITH NUMEROUS ADDITIONS AND NOTES,

BY

THE RIGHT HON. JOHN WILSON CROKER, M.P.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

TWO SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUMES OF JOHNSONIANA,

BY HAWKINS, PIOZZI, MURPHY, TYERS, REYNOLDS,
MALONE, NICHOLS, STEEVENS, CUMBERLAND,

AND OTHERS.

JOHNSONIANA — CONTINUED.

CONTENTS.

Part XXI. ANECDOTES BY NORTHCOTE

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XXII.
Miss SEWARD

9

XXIII.
Parr

22

XXIV.
BARETTI

35

XXV.
PERCY

40

XXVI.
LADY KNIGHT

48

XXVII.
STOCKDALE

51

XXVIII.
Miss HAWKINS

56

XXIX.
Nichols

62

XXX.
MURPHY

66

XXXI. CRITICAL REMARKS BY DRAKE

76

XXXII. ANECDOTES, OPINIONS, AND REMARKS,

BY VARIOUS Persons

96

XXXIII. JEUX D'ESPRIT ON Johnson's B10-

182

XXXIV. MEMOIR OF BOSWELL; EXTRACTS FROM

His LETTERS, &c. &c.

203

GRAPHERS

Aston, Molly, 9. 12.

Author, 113.

Accents, Greek, 28.

“ Adventurer,” 32. 83.

“ Anningait and Ajut,” 91.

A postacy, 15.

Argument, 102.
Arithmetic, 111.
Assertion and argument, 102.
Aston, Elizabeth, 11.

“ Balance of Misery," 291.

Baretti, anecdotes by, 35.
Bernard, Dr., 141.
Biography, 119.
Blessing, an old man's, 128.