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of a brain that, with sun-clear intellect, hovered forever on the verge of insanity-must that same inmost essence have looked forth; unrecognizable to all but the most observant! Accordingly, it was not recognized; Johnson passed not for a fine nature, but for a dull, almost brutal one.

More legibly is this influence of the Loving heart to be traced in his intellectual character. What, indeed, is the beginning of intellect, the first inducement to the exercise thereof, but attraction toward somewhat, affection for it? Thus too, who ever saw, or will see, any true talent, not to speak of genius, the foundation of which is not goodness, love? From Johnson's strength of Affection we deduce many of his intellectual peculiarities; especially that threatening array of perversions, known under the name of " Johnson's Prejudices." Looking well into the root from which these sprang, we have long ceased to view them with hostility, can pardon and reverently pity them. Consider with what force early imbibed opinions must have clung to a soul of this Affection. Those evil-famed Prejudices of his, that Jacobitism, Church-of-Englandism, hatred of the Scotch, belief in Witches, and such like, what were they but the ordinary beliefs of well-doing, well-meaning provincial Englishmen in that day? First gathered by his Father's hearth; round the kind "country fires" of native Staffordshire; they grew with his growth and strengthened with his strength: they were hallowed by fondest sacred recollections; to part with them was parting with his heart's blood. If the man who has no strength of Affection, strength of Belief, have no strength of Prejudice, let him thank Heaven for it, but to himself take small thanks.

Melancholy it was, indeed, that the noble Johnson could not work himself loose from these adhesions; that he could only purify them, and wear them with some nobleness. Yet let us understand how they grew out from the very centre of his being: nay, moreover, how they came to cohere in him with what formed the business and worth of his Life,

the sum of his whole Spiritual Endeavor. For it is on the same ground that he became throughout an Edifier and Repairer, not, as the others of his make were, a Puller-down; that in an age of universal Scepticism, England was still to produce its Believer. Mark too his candor even here; while a Dr. Adams, with placid surprise, asks, “Have we not evidence enough of the soul's immortality ?" Johnson answers, "I wish for more."

But the truth is, in Prejudice, as in all things, Johnson was the product of England; one of those good yeomen whose limbs were made in England: alas, the last of such Invincibles, their day being now done! His culture is wholly English; that not of a Thinker but of a "Scholar:" his interests are wholly English; he sees and knows nothing but England; he is the John Bull of Spiritual Europe; let him live, love him, as he was and could not but be! Pitiable it is, no doubt, that a Samuel Johnson must confute Hume's irreligious Philosophy by some "story from a Clergyman of the Bishopric of Durham;" should see nothing in the great Frederick but "Voltaire's lackey;" in Voltaire himself but a man acerrimi ingenii, paucarum literarum; in Rousseau but one worthy to be hanged; and in the universal, long-prepared, inevitable Tendency of European Thought but a green-sick milkmaid's crotchet of, for variety's sake, “milking the Bull." Our good, dear John! Observe, too, what it is that he sees in the city of Paris: no feeblest glimpse of those D'Alemberts and Diderots, or of the strange questionable work they did; solely some Benedictine Priests, to talk kitchen-latin with them about Editiones Principes. "Monsheer Nongtongpaw !"-Our dear, foolish John: yet is there a lion's heart within him! Pitiable all these thing were, we say; yet nowise inexcusable; nay, as basis or as foil to much else that was, in Johnson, almost venerable. Ought we not, indeed, to honor England, and English Institutions and Way of Life, that they could still equip such a man; could furnish him in heart and head

to be a Samuel Johnson, and yet to love them, and unyieldingly fight for them? What truth and living vigor must such Institutions once have had, when, in the middle of the eighteenth century, there was still enough left in them for this!

INDEX.

A.

Abbé Raynal, the, 92.

124.

Amiability, 254.

Anger, Dr. Johnson's, 170.

Animals, kindness to, 199-201.

Rouffette, conversing with the, | Annihilation after death, disbelief in,

Abington's, Mrs., benefit, 43.

175.

Antics and gestures, 16.

Abridgment of a work, printing an, Anti-sentimentality, 68-73.

158.

Abroad, 12.

Absent-mindedness, 15.

Abstainer and wine-drinker, 21, 22.
Accent, provincial, 25.

Account of Johnson's household, 238,
239.

Acquaintances, partial to making new,
180.

Apologies, 170–173.

Apparitions, on, 60.

Appearance, manners, and peculiari-
ties, 9-25.

Approbation and good-will, expres-
sions of, 187-194.
Argument, fond of, 165.

tenacity in maintaining the
wrong side of an, 119.

Action in public speaking, against, Arithmetic, study of, 32.

117.

Adultery, on the heinousness of the

crime of, 98, 99.

Advertising, specimen of, 228, 229.
Affection and respect, expressions of,
187.

Arkwright's opinion of Johnson's me-
chanical knowledge, 164.
Arrogance, 73-75.

Art of self-defence, on the, 96.
Arts, no appreciation for the fine,
94.

Agriculture, attainment in the theory Asthma, seized with a spasmodic, 27.

and practice of, 164.

"Albany," character of, 141.
Alchemy, 58.

"Ambassador says well, the," 233.
America, English in, 87.

taxation by Great Britain of,

107, 108.

At home, 11.

Athletic exercises, 33.

Auchinleck, Lord, bout with, 248,249.
Author and scholar, habits as, 35-39.
Authority and predominance, 211-
216.

and rank, respect for, 79-84.

America's future (1773), opinion of, Authors and patronage, remarks on,

229.

Americans, abuse of the, 110.

182.

opinion about, 155–157.

B.

Bagpipe, fondness for the music of

the, 92.

Ballad-singer, opinion of a, 85, 86.
Bandeau, dislike to a, 149, 150.
Banks, visit to Mr., 15.

Barbarians, a name given to the East
Indians, 90.

Barber, Francis, sincere regard for,
199.

Baretti's Italian lesson, 22.

sad affair, 69.

Barnard, Dr., Provost of Eton, 76,
130, 171, 172, 215.

conversation with, 215.

-, replying to, 130.

rude reply to, 171, 172.

Bateman's lectures, 181.

Bathurst considered a good hater, 55.
Bawdy talk, 73, 74.

Bearing and walk, 10.

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receives the appellation of
"Bozzy," 227.

takes a liberty, 224.

Boswell's father, 249, 250.

first meeting with Johnson, 218-
220.

"Life of Johnson," extracts
from Macaulay's Essay, 259-267;
Carlyle's Essay, 268-306.
Bottom of good sense, a, 127, 128.
Boufflers, Madame de, politeness to,
147, 148.

Bout with Lord Auchinleck, 248, 249.
"Bozzy," appellation given to Bos-
well, 227.

Brandy, approval of, 93.

Branghton, taken for a, 227.

Bearishness, Goldsmith on Johnson's, Breakfast scene, a, 246.

253, 254.

Beauclerk and Langton, 26.

Topham, affection for, 206, 207.
Beauty, obtuseness to natural, 99, 100.
Benevolence, instances of, 201, 202.
Berkeley's, Dr., ingenious philosophy,

129.

Bet Flint, character of, 142, 143.
Birthday reminiscences, 48.
Bishop, controversy with a, 104.
Blade of grass, a, 100.
Bodleian Library, "Evelina" in the,
191, 192.

Bolingbroke, Lord, the works of, 129.
Books of travel, 112, 113.
Bookseller, insult from a wealthy,
178, 179.

Boswell, Mrs., opinion of, 139.
Boswell and Johnson at Streatham,
226, 227.

dining with, 237, 238.
easiness with, 228.

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