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CONTENTS.
Boswell's Thesis.
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CHAPTER I.
1765-1767.
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.
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
- 'Tom
CHAPTER II.
1768.
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.
MSS. St. Kilda. Oxford.
Guthrie.
Robertson. -Future Life of Brutes. - Scorpions. Mau-
Woodcocks. Swallows. Bell's Travels.
Choice of a Wife. Baretti's Italy. - Popular
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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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.
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CHAPTER IV.
1769-1770.
"Making Fools of one's Visiters." - Trade. - Mrs. Williams's
Tea-table.-James Ferguson.- Medicated Baths.-" Cod-
dling" Children. — Population of Russia.
Attachment to Soil. Roman Catholic Religion.
Conversion to Popery. - Fear of Death. Steevens.
"Tom Tyers."- Blackmore's "Creation."-The Marriage
Service. -"The False Alarm." O Percival Stockdale.
Self-examination.
- Visit to Lichfield and Ashbourne.-
Baretti's Travels. Letters to Mrs. Thrale, Warton,
&c.
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CHAPTER V.
Dr. Maxwell's Collectanea.
Mode of Life.
letter Books.
of Ireland.
1770.
- Johnson's Politics, and general
Opulent Tradesmen. - London. — Black-
Anatomy of Melancholy."-- Government
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.
CHAPTER VI.
1771.
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Lord
"Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting Falkland's
Islands.” — Lord George Grenville. — Junius. — Design of
bringing Johnson into Parliament. Mr. Strahan.
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
Act. - Old Families. -Mimicry. - Foote. 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.
Veal. Gray, Mason, and Akenside.
Swearing. War-
ton's Essay on Pope. Ranelagh.-Luxury.
of Livings. Hon. Thomas Erskine.
Inequality
Fielding and
Gaming. Earl of
Buchan.-Attachment between Relations.-Feudal System.
- Cave's Ghost Story. - Witches.
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CHAPTER VIII.
1772-1773.
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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. -"In Vino
Veritas." Education of the People. Sense of Touch
in the Blind. - Theory of Sounds. Taste in the Arts.
Francis Osborne's Works. Country Gentlemen. - Long
Stories. - Beattie and Robertson.
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.
Friday. Easter Day. A Dinner at Johnson's.
Good
Wages
Keeping a Journal. Luxury.
The Stuarts. Law Reports. -"The Gentle
Shepherd."-Whigs and Tories.-Sterne.-Charles Towns-
hend."Happy Revolution.". "She Stoops to Conquer."
Dedications. — James Harris. - Playing
on the Fiddle.
Duelling. Lord Chatham's Verses to
Garrick. Savage Life. Suicide. Eustace Budgell.
The Douglas Cause.
CHAPTER X.
1773.
Dinner at Topham Beauclerk's. - · Boswell elected of The
Club.
- Goldsmith in Company, and in his Study. — His
Roman History. "Talking for Victory.". Bunyan's
Pilgrim's Progress. Monuments in St. Paul's. - Milton.
"The Whole Duty of Man."— Puns. — Lay
Patronage. The Bread Tree.- Savage Life.-Reasoning
of Brutes.
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.
ARGUMENT IN BEHALF OF HASTIE, THE SCHOOL-
MASTER, PROSECUTED FOR UNDUE SEVERITY.
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