CONTAINING

APHORISMS

ON

LITERATURE, LIFE, AND MANNERS;

WITH

ANECDOTES,

OF

DISTINGUISHED PERSONS:

SELECTED AND ARRANGED

FROM

MR. BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

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

LONDON:

Bacon's Essays.

PRINTED

FOR J. MAWMAN; LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND
ORME; LACKINGTON, ALLEN, AND CO.; VERNOR, HOOD, AND
SHARPE; AND WILSON AND SPENCE, YORK.