CONTAINING

APHORISMS.

ON

LITERATURE, LIFE, AND MANNERS;

WITH

ANECDOTES

OF

DISTINGUISHED PERSONS:

SELECTED AND ARRANGED

FROM

MR. BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON.

He that questioneth much Thall learn much, and content
much; but especially if he apply Ris questions to the skill of the
persons whom he asketh: for he that give them occafion to
please themselves in speaking, and himself thall continually
gather knowledge.

London:

BACON'S ESSAYS.

PRINTED FOR C. DILLY IN THE POULTRY,

M,DCC,XCVIII.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

THE approbation bestowed on BOSWELL's Life of JOHNSON, Suggested the propriety of the selection now offered to the Public. The sentiments of that great moralift and judge of human nature on various interesting topics are here arranged and digested in a manner which it is hoped will prove agreeable to a numerous class of readers; those, namely, who seek for instruction from works which they may take up or lay down at pleasure, without interrupting the chain of an argument, or the circumstances of a nar

ration,

:

Dr. JOHNSON's conversation poffeffed precisely that ex cellence so well described by LORD VERULAM in a fentence almost immediately proceding that which has been chosen for the matto to the Title Page of this work :-" It is good in discourse and speech of conversation (Says his Lordship, in the quaint but expressive language of his age) to vary and intermingle speech of the present occafion with arguments; tales with reasons; asking of questions with telling of opinions; and jest with earnest."

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