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LIFE OF JOHNSON, VOLUME5
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BOSWELL'SLIFE OF JOHNSON
INCLUDING BOSWELL'S JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDESAND JOHNSON'S DIARY OF A JOURNEY INTO NORTH WALES
EDITED BY
GEORGE BIRKBECK HILL, D.C.L.
PEMBROKE COLLEGE, OXFORD
IN SIX VOLUMES
VOLUME V.TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES(1773)
AND
JOURNEY INTO NORTH WALES(1774)
THEJOURNALOF A TOUR TO THE_HEBRIDES_,
WITH
SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.BY_JAMES BOSWELL_, ESQ.
CONTAINING
Some Poetical Pieces by Dr. JOHNSON,relative to theTOUR,and never before published;
A Series of his Conversation, Literary Anecdotes, and Opinionsof Men and Books:
WITH AN AUTHENTICK ACCOUNT OF
The Distresses and Escape of theGRANDSONofKINGJAMES II.in the Year 1746.
_THE THIRD EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED._
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O! while along the stream of time, thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant fail, Pursue the triumph and partake the gale?POPE.
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_LONDON:_PRINTED BY HENRY BALDWIN,FOR CHARLES DILLY, IN THE POULTRY.MDCCLXXXVI.
CONTENTS OF VOL. V.
JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES WITH SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.:DEDICATION TO EDMOND MALONE, ESQ.ADVERTISEMENT TO THE THIRD EDITIONCONTENTSJOURNALAPPENDICES: I. LETTER FROM DR. BLACKLOCKII. VERSES BY SIR ALEXANDER MACDONALD ADVERTISEMENT OF THE LIFEA. EXTRACTS FROM WARBURTONB. LORD HOUGHTON'S TRANSLATION OF JOHNSON'S ODE WRITTEN IN SKYC. JOHNSON'S USE OF THE WORD_BIG_
A JOURNEY INTO NORTH WALES IN THE YEAR1774
DEDICATION.
_TO EDMOND MALONE, ESQ._
MY DEAR SIR,
In every narrative, whether historical or biographical, authenticity isof the utmost consequence[1]. Of this I have ever been so firmlypersuaded, that I inscribed a former work[2] to that person who was thebest judge of its truth. I need not tell you I mean General Paoli; who,after his great, though unsuccessful, efforts to preserve the libertiesof his country, has found an honourable asylum in Britain, where he hasnow lived many years the object of Royal regard and private respect[3];and whom I cannot name without expressing my very grateful sense of theuniform kindness which he has been pleased to shew me[4].
The friends of Doctor Johnson can best judge, from internal evidence,whether the numerous conversations which form the most valuable part ofthe ensuing pages are correctly related. To them, therefore, I wish toappeal, for the accuracy of the portrait here exhibited to the world.
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