A LIBRARY OF

UNIVERSAL LITERATURE

BIOGRAPHY

VOLUME TWENTY-FOUR

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

CHAPTER I.

1769.

General Paoli-Observance of Sunday-Rousseau and Monboddo-Love of Singularity-Lon-

don Life Artemisias - Second Marriages - Scotch Gardening - Vails - Prior - Garrick's

Poetry-History -Whitfield - The Corsicans - Good Breeding - Fate and Free-will-Gold-

smith's Tailor-The Dunciad-Dryden-Congreve-Sheridan-Mrs. Montagu's Essay-Lord

Kames-Burke-Ballad of Hardyknute--Fear of Death-Sympathy with Distress-Foote-

Buchanan-Baretti's Trial-Mandeville,

CHAPTER II.

1769-1770.

"Making Fools of one's Visiters "-Trade-Mrs. Williams's Tea-table-James Ferguson-

Medicated Baths-" Coddling" Children-Population of Russia-Large Farms-Attach-

ment to soil-Roman Catholic Religion-Conversion to Popery-Fear of Death-Steevens-

"Tom Tyers"-Blackmore's "Creation "-The Marriage Service-" The False Alarm "—

Percival Stockdale-Self-examination-Visit to Lichfield-and Ashbourne-Baretti's Travels

-Letters to Mrs. Thrale-Warton, &c.,
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CHAPTER III

1770.

Dr. Maxwell's Collectanea-Johnson's Politics, and general Mode of Life-Opulent Trades-

men-London-Black-letter Books-"Anatomy of Melancholy."-Government of Ireland

-Love-Jacob Behmen-Established Clergy-Dr. Priestley-Blank Verse-French Novels

-Pere Boscovich-Lord Lyttelton's Dialogues-Ossian- Woodhouse, the Poetical Cob.

bler-Boetias-National Debt-Mallet-Marriage-Foppery-Glidert Cooper-Homer-

Gregory Sharpe-Poor of England-Corn Laws-Dr. Browne-Mr. Burke-Economy-For

tune-hunters-Orchards Irish Clergy,

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CHAPTER IV.

1771.

*Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands "—Lord George Grenville

-Junius-Design of bringing Johnson into Parliament-Mr. Strahan-Lord North-Mr.

Flood-Boswell's Marriage-Visit to Lichfield and Ashbourne-Dr. Beattie-Lord Monboddo

-St. Kilda-Scots Church-Second Sight-The Thirty-nine Articles-Thirtieth of January-

Royal Marriage Act-Old Families-Mimickry-Foote-Mr. Peyton-Origin of Languages—

Irish and Gaelo-Flogging at Schools-Lord Mansfield-Sir Gilbert Elliot,

СНАРТЕER V.

1772.

Bir A. Macdonald-Choice of Chancellors-Lord Coke-Lord Mansfield-Scotch Accent-Pro-

nunciation-Etymology- Disembodied Spirits-Ghost Stories-Mrs. Veal-Gray, Mason,

and Akenside-Swearing-Warton's Essay on Pope-Ranelagh-Luxury-Inequality of Liv.

ings-Hon. Thomas Erskine-Fielding and Richardson-Coriat's Crudities-Gaming-Earl

of Buchan-Attachment in Families-Feudal System-Cave's Ghost Story-Witches,

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CHAPTER VI.

1772-1773.

Dinner at General Oglethorpe's-Armorial Bearings-Duelling-Prince Eugene-Siege of

Belgrade-Friendships-Goldsmith's Natural History-Story of Prendergast-Expulsion of

Methodists from Oxford-" In Vino Veritas "-Education of the People-Sense of Touch in

the Blind-Theory of Sounds-Taste in the Arts-Francis Osborne's Works-Country Gen-

tlemen-Long Stories-Beattie and Robertson-Advice to Authors-Climate-Walpole and

Pitt-Vicious Intromission-Beattie's Essay-Visit to Lichfield and Ashbourne,

CHAPTER VII.

1773.

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orge Steevens-Letters to Mrs. Thrale, &c.—Goldsmith and Evans the Bookseller-Dalrym-

ple's History-Action in Speaking-Chesterfield and Tyrawley-The Spectator-Sir Andrew

Freeport-Burnet's Own Times-Good Friday-Easter Day-A Dinner at Johnson's-

Wages to Women Servants-Keeping a Journal-Luxury-Equality-The Stuarts-Law

Reports" The Gentle Shepherd "-Whigs and Tories-Sterne-Charles Townshend-

"Happy Revolution "-" She Stoops to Conquer"-Short-hand-Dedications-James

Harris-Playing on the Fiddle-Duelling-Lord Chatham's Verses to Garrick-Savage

Life-Suicide-Eustace Budgell-The Douglas Cause,

CHAPTER VIII.

1773.

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Dinner at Topham Beauclerk's-Boswell elected of The Club-Goldsmith in Company, and in

his Study-His Roman History-" Talking for Victory "-Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress-

Monuments in St. Paul's-Milton-Butler-" The Whole Duty of Man"-Pung-Lay