OF

SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.

INCLUDING HIS TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES, CORRESPONDENCE

WITH MRS. THRALE, &c. &c.

BY JAMES BOSWELL.

WITH NUMEROUS ADDITIONS,

BY JOHN WILSON CROKER.

REVISED AND ENLARGed under HIS DIRECTION,
BY JOHN WRIGHT.

VOL. V.

LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS, YORK STREET,

COVENT GARDEN.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,

STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

1773.

Johnson leaves the Isle of Sky. - A Storm.

Col. His Appearance on a Sheltie. -

Driven into

Sea Sickness.

"Burnet's Own Times.". Rev. Hector M'Lean. Bayle,

Leibnitz, and Clarke.

Cucumbers.

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- Insular Life.

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Song, "Hatyin foam' eri."

-Breacacha. -Johnson's Power of Ridicule.- Happiness

in a Cottage. Advice to Landlords.

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- Pretended Brother

of Johnson. Carte's Life of Ormond. - Family of Col.

-Letters by Montrose

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CHAPTER II.

Tenants and Landlords. —London and

Superstitions. · Coarse Manners. Bustle not

Bossuet. Massillon. Bourdaloue. A

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Reception of

Spence. Miss Maclean. Account of

Mull.- Ulva. Second Sight.

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Mercheta Mulierum..

Inch-Kenneth. Sir Allan Maclean.

Sunday Reading.

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- Dr. Campbell.

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Drinking.-Verses on Inch-Kenneth.

-Young Col's good Qualities. Solander.

Burke.

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"La Crédulité des Incrédules." Coast of Mull.

- Nuns' Island. - Icolmkill.

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Quotation from Johnson's

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Tour. Return to Mull. Pulteney. Pitt. - Walpole.

English and Jewish History compared.

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Wilkes.

"Turkish Spy."

Sheep's-heads. Sail to Oban.

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- Pope and Cowley compared.

Garrick. Hervey's "Meditations.”

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Pudding.". Country Neighbours. - Castle of Inverary.—

Duke and Duchess of Argyle. — Influence of Peers

- Auchinleck. Boswell's Father. - Anecdotes. Ha-

milton.

Credulity. Second Sight. - Garrick and Foote as Com-

panions. Moravian Missions and Methodism.. History.

Robertson.- Rebellion.

Private Life of a Judge. — Blair. — Boswell's Imi-

tations. Officers of the Army. - Academy for Deaf and

Scotch Highlander and English Sailor. Roslin