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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
1775.
Excursion into France. Paris. Benedictine Monks.
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Choisi. — Palais-Royal. — Mrs. Fermor. — Palais-Bourbon.
- Fontainebleau. Versailles. Trianon. Santerre the
Sorbonne.
King's Library.
Compeigne. Cambray. State of Society in France.
Madame de Boufflers. - Voltaire. Dr. Burney's Collec-
tanea. - Letters to Mrs. Montagu, &c. ̧
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CHAPTER II.
1776.
Value of Truth. Monastic Orders. Carthusians. Re-
ligious Austerities. — Wine-bibbing. - Fasting. - Influence
of Education. - Arithmetic. Sea Life.
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my of Melancholy." - Dr. Wetherell. — Dr. Adams.
Conversation. Bishop Hornę. -
Walton's "Lives."
Gibbon.-Steele.
Burke. Blenheim.
166 Tristram
Taverns and Inns.
Dyer's "Fleece." - Grainger's "Sugar Cane."
Birmingham. - Legitimation. - Marriage.
Quakers.
Holidays. Nelson's "Festivals.” Soho.- Mr. Boulton.
- Lichfield and its Inhabitants.
CHAPTER IV.
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Questioning.
Taylor.
- Shakspeare's Mulberry-tree.-Lord Bute.-Marriage.-
Sir Fletcher Norton. Ashbourne. Dr.
Old Men putting themselves to nurse.
Palmerino d'Inghilterra." Ingratitude. Mr. Wedder-
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- "Il
Dr. James. Melan-
Character of a Soldier.
-Good Humour of ancient Philosophers.- Public Schools.
- English Universities. -Libels on the Dead.
Popish Corruptions. Licensed Stews. Seduction.
Ellis. Gaming. Card-playing.-Conjugal Obligations.
Law of Usury. — Beggars. — Dr. Cheyne. Solitude.
son.
The Reviews.
Lord Lyttelton.
"The Specta
tor." Dr. Barry. — Dinner at General Paoli's. - Abel
Italy.-The Mediterranean. Poetical Trans-
Drugger.
lation. Art of Printing. Education of the People.
Thomson.
Hudibras.
Purpose of Tragedy.
Swearing. - Wine-drink-
ing. Cumberland's " Odes."— Savage Life.
Dinner at Mr. Dilly's. — John
Wilkes. -Foote's Mimicry. -Garrick's Wit. -Biography.
-Cibber's Plays.-" Difficile est propriè,"&c.-City Poets.
-"Diabolus Regis."- Lord Bute. Mrs. Knowles.
Mrs. Rudd.
Sermons.- Easter Day. - Prayer. Sir Alexander Dick.
Shaw's Erse Grammar. Johnson engages to write
Collection. Dr. Dodd. Boswell at the Tomb of Me-
lancthon. Isaac De Groot. Dr. Watts. Letter to
Baltic. - Grief for the Loss of Relatives and Friends.
Incomes of Curates. Johnson's humane and zealous In-
terference in behalf of Dr. Dodd.
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Hume. Fear of Death. Duties of a Biographer.
Derby.
Shaving. Nichols's "De Animâ
Medicâ." Dr. Dodd. Blair. Goldsmith.
boddo's "Air-bath."- Early Rising. Sleep. -Water-
drinking. Rutty's "Spiritual Diary."— Autobiographers.
-Imitators of Johnson's Style. — Biographia Britannica.-
Melancholy and Madness. - Life in London.
Profession
Employment. - Dr. Taylor's "Sermons."-
of the Law.
Authors.
No. I.
No. II.
NOTE ON CIBBER'S "LIVES OF THE POETS"
ARGUMENT, BY DR. JOHNSON, IN FAVOUR OF
MR. JAMES THOMPSON, MINISTER OF DUMFERMLINE