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ENOX LIBRARY

NEW YORK

JOHNSONIANA, &c.

PART II.

No. I.

LITERATURE.

WITH respect to the prospects held out to an adventurer in the career of literature, a curious anecdote was communicated by Dr. Johnson himself to Mr. John Nichols. Mr. Wilcox the bookseller, on being informed by him that his intention was to get his livelihood as an author, eyed his robust frame attentively, and, with a significant look, said, "You had better buy a porter's knot." He however added, "Wilcox was one of my best friends."

One of his earliest labours was the compilation of the debates in parliament, for the Gentleman's Magazine, which he did from very slender memoranidums. He told a friend, however, that as soon as he found the speeches were thought genuine, he determined he would write no more of them; "for he would not be accessory to the propagation of falsehood." And such was the tenderness of his conscience, that a short time before his death, he expressed his regret for his having been the author of fictions, which had passed for realities.

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