AUGUST 23.-Dr. Johnson made a burgess of Aberdeen. Dinner at Sir Alexander Gordon's. Warburton's powers of invective. His "Doctrine of Grace." AUGUST 24.-Goldsmith and Graham. Slain's castle. Education of children. Buller of Buchan. Entails. Consequence of peers. Sir Joshua Reynolds. AUGUST 25.-The advantages of being on good terms with relations. Nabobs. Feudal state of subordination. Dinner at Strichen. Life of country gentle- AUGUST 26.-Lord Monboddo. Use and importance of wealth. Elgin. Macbeth's AUGUST 27.-Leonidas. Paul Whitehead. Derrick. Origin of evil. Calder manse. Life of a sailor. Landlord's daughter at Anoch SEPTEMBER 1.-Glensheal. The Macraes. Dr. Johnson's anger at being left for a little while by the author on a wild plain. Wretched inn at Glenelg SEPTEMBER 2.-Dr. Johnson relents. Isle of Sky. Armidale SEPTEMBER 5.-Sir James Macdonald's epitaph and last letter to his mother. Dr. Rasay. Fingal. Homer. Elegant and gay entertainment at Rasay SEPTEMBER 9.-Antiquity of the family of Rasay. Cure of infidelity SEPTEMBER 10.-Survey of the island of Rasay. Bentley. Mallet. SEPTEMBER 11.-Heritable jurisdictions. Insular life. The Laird of Macleod the Practice of authors is necessary to enforce their Doctrines. Good-humour .. SEPTEMBER 15.-Sir George Mackenzie. Mr. Burke's wit, knowledge, and elo- SEPTEMBER 16.-Dr. Johnson's hereditary melancholy. His minute knowledge in SEPTEMBER 17.-Cunning. Whether great abilities are necessary to be wicked. SEPTEMBER 22.-Subterraneous house and vast cave in Ulinish. Swift's Lord Union. Life of a sailor. SEPTEMBER 26.-Morning review of Last night's intemperance. Old Kingsburgh's OCTOBER 1.-Dr. Johnson not answerable for all the words in his Dictionary. At- 217 OCTOBER 2.-Old manners of great families in Wales. German courts. smith's love of talk. Emigration. Curious story of the people of St. OCTOBER 4.-Dr. Johnson's mode of living in the Temple. His curious appearance : piness in a cottage considered. Advice to landlords The Rev. Mr. Hector No redress for a man's name being affixed to a foolish work. Lady Sidney Beauclerk. Carte's Life of the Duke of Ormond. Col's cabinet. Letters of the great Montrose. Present OCTOBER 10.-Dependence of tenants on landlords OCTOBER 11.-London and Pekin compared. Dr. Johnson's high opinion of the OCTOBER 12.-Return to Mr. Macsweyn's. Other superstitions beside those con- nected with religion. Dr. Johnson disgusted with coarse manners. His OCTOBER 14.-Arrive in Mull. Addison's "Remarks on Italy." Addison not much conversant with Italian literature. The French masters of the art of accom- modating literature. Their Ana. Racine. Corneille. Moliere. Fenelon. Voltaire. Bossuet. Massillon. Bourdaloue. Virgil's description of the en- OCTOBER 15.-Erse Poetry. Danger of a knowledge of music. The propriety of OCTOBER 17.-Arrive at Inchkenneth. Sir Allan Maclean and his daughters. None but theological books should be read on Sunday. Dr Campbell. Dr. Johnson exhibited as a Highlander. Thoughts on drinking. Dr. Johnson's Latin OCTOBER 18.-Young Col's various good qualities. No extraordinary talents requi- site to success in trade. Dr. Solander. Mr. Burke. Dr. Johnson's intrepidity and presence of mind. Singular custom in the islands of Col and Otaheite. Further eulogium on young Col. Credulity of a Frenchman in foreign coun- OCTOBER 19.-Death of young Col. Dr. Johnson slow of belief without strong evi- . OCTOBER 20.--Sketch of the ruins of Icolmkill. Influence of solemn scenes of piety. OCTOBER 22.-Uncommon breakfast offered to Dr. Johnson, and rejected. Loch- OCTOBER 23.-Goldsmith's "Traveller." Pope and Cowley compared. Archibald Duke of Argyle. Arrive at Inverary. Dr. Johnson drinks some whiskey, and assigns his reasons. Letter from the author to Mr. Garrick. Mr. Garrick's OCTOBER 24.-Specimen of "Ogden on Prayer." "Hervey's Meditations." Dr. Johnson's meditation on a pudding. Country neighbours. The author's visit to the castle of Inverary. Perverse opposition to the influence of peers in OCTOBER 25.-Dr. Johnson presented to the Duke of Argyle. Grandeur of his OCTOBER 26.-A passage in Home's "Douglas," and one in "Juvenal," compared. 281 286 alacrity during the tour. Arrive at Glasgow OCTOBER 29.-Glasgow surveyed. Attention of the professors to Dr. Johnson. 295 OCTOBER 30.-Dinner at the Earl of Loudon's. Character of that nobleman. NOVEMBER 1.-Rules for the distribution of charity. Castle of Dundonald, NOVEMBER 2.-Arrive at Auchinleck. Character of Lord Auchinleck. His idea NOVEMBER 4.-Auchinleck. Cattle without horns. Composure of mind, how far NOVEMBER 5.-Dr. Johnson's high respect for the English clergy NOVEMBER 6.-Lord Auchinleck and Dr. Johnson in collision NOVEMBER 7.-Dr. Johnson's uniform piety. His dislike of Presbyterian worship NOVEMBER 9.-The Duke of Hamilton's house. Arrive at Edinburgh NOVEMBER 11.--History originally oral. Dr. Robertson's liberality of sentiment. SUMMARY ACCOUNT of the manner in which Dr. Johnson spent nis time from 836 829 |