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CONTENTS.

DEDICATON.

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INTRODUCTION. Character of Dr. Johnson. He arrives in Scot-

land.

August 15. Sir W. Forbes. Practice of the law. Emigration.
Dr. Beattie and Mr. Hume. Dr. Robertson. Mr. Burke's
various and extraordinary talents. Question concerning genius.
Whitfield and Wesley. Instructions to political parties. Dr.
Johnson's opinion of Garrick as a tragedian.
August 16. Ogden on Prayer. Aphoristick writing. Edin-
burgh surveyed. Character of Swift's works. Evil spirits
and witchcraft. Lord Monboddo.

August 17. Poetry and Dictionary-writing. Scepticism. Eter-

nal necessity refuted. Lord Hailes's criticism on The Vanity

of Human Wishes. Mr. Maclaurin. Decision of the Judges

in Scotland on literary property.

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August 18. Set out to the Hebrides. Sketch of the authour's
character. Trade of Glasgow. Suicide.

Inchkeith. Par-

Retirement

Question con-

August 19. Dr. Watson. Literature and patronage. Writing
and conversation compared. Change of manners. The Union.
Value of money. St. Andrews and John Knox.
from the world. Dinner with the Professors.
cerning sorrow and content. Instructions for composition.
Dr. Johnson's method. Uncertainty of memory.

Observance of Sunday. Professor
Shaw. Transubstantiation. Literary property. Mr. Tyers's

remark on Dr. Johnson.

August 21. Want of trees.

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Laurence Kirk. Dinner at Mon-

boddo. Emigration. Homer. Biography and history com-
pared. Decrease of learning. Causes of it. Promotion of

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Lady Sidney

October 7. Books the best solace in a state of confinement. 280

October 8. Pretended brother of Dr. Johnson. No redress for a
man's name being affixed to a foolish work.
Beauclerk. Carte's Life of the Duke of Ormond.

net. Letters of the great Montrose. Present state of the

island of Col.

Col's cabi-

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October 13. Bustle not necessary to dispatch. Oats the food not

of the Scotch alone.

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October 14. Arrive in Mull. Addison's Remarks on Italy. Ad-
dison not much conversant with Italian literature.
French masters of the art of accomodating literature. Their
Ana. Racine. Corneille. Moliere. Fenelon. Voltaire.

The

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