CONTENTS. teeism. - Absen- Jenyns's "Internal Evidence." Courage. Friendship. Free Will.-Mandeville. -"Private Vices public Bene- fits." Hannah More. Mason's Prosecution of Mr. Murray the Bookseller. Fear of Death.. Annihilation. tue and Vice. — The Bat. — Lord Marchmont. -"Tran- - Native Modesty. - Foreign Travel. — Lord Charlemont. Country Life. Manners of the Great. Horne's "Letter to Dunning.” — Dr. Mead - Rasselas and Can- London. -"Government of the Tongue." Good Friday. - - - Easter Day. — Eel-skinning. — Claret, Port, Brandy. — - - - Stuart. Choice of Guardians. - Adventurers to the East Poor of London. - Pope's "Essay on Man." Lord Bolingbroke. -Johnson's Residences in London. Conjugal Infidelity. Roman Catholics. - Helps to the Astley. Keeping Company with Infidels. — Irish Union. Clergyman. — Composition of Sermons. Borough Elec- Lady Southwell. - Mr. Alexander Macbean. THE LIFE • OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. CHAPTER I. 1777 -1778. Ashbourne. Personal Disputes. shire. Burke's Definition of a Free Government. Ilam. The Christian Revelation. Mungo Campbell. · Dr. Taylor's Bull-dog. "Esop at play.". Memory. Hypochondria. Topham Beauclerk. Grainger's - Happiness. "Ode on Solitude." - Music. - Fu ture State.. - Slave Trade.-American Independence. Corruption of Parliament.— Planting.—" Oddity Johnson." Decision of the Negro Cause. Saunders Welch. Advice to Travellers. spondence. - ON Monday, September 22., when at breakfast, I unguardedly said to Dr. Johnson, “I wish I saw you and Mrs. Macaulay together." He grew very angry; and, after a pause, while a cloud gathered on his brow, he burst out, " No, Sir; you would not see us quarrel, to make you sport. Don't you know that it is very uncivil to pit two people against |