The life of Samuel Johnson, , comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works, in chronological order; a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons . not be known with certainty beforehand, whether what may seemtrifling to some, and, perhaps, to the collector himself, may not be mostagreeable to many ; and the gi-eater number that an author can pleasein any degree, the more pleasure does there arise to a benevolent mind. To those who are weak enough to think this is a degrading task, andthe time and labour which have been devoted to it m
The life of Samuel Johnson, , comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works, in chronological order; a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons . not be known with certainty beforehand, whether what may seemtrifling to some, and, perhaps, to the collector himself, may not be mostagreeable to many ; and the gi-eater number that an author can pleasein any degree, the more pleasure does there arise to a benevolent mind. To those who are weak enough to think this is a degrading task, andthe time and labour which have been devoted to it misemployed, I shallcontent myself with opposing the authority of the greatest man of anyage, Julius CiESAR, of whom Bacon observes, that In his book of Apophthegms which he collected, we see that he esteemedit more honour to make himself but a pair of tables, to take the wise and pithywords of others, than to have every word of his own to be made an apophthegmor an oracle. [Advancement of Learning, Book I.] Having said thus much by way of introduction, I commit the following pages to the candour of the public. > A Spanish Rabbi, considered the best grammarian of his nation. He died in 1240.— BIRTHPLACE OF DR. JOUXSON. CHAPTER I.—1709-1731. Birth and Infancy of Johnson—Account op his Parents — Anecdotes of his Child-hood—Taken to London to receive the Royal Touch for Scrofula—School Daysat Lichfield—His Uncle Cornelius Ford, and Cousin the Rev. Dr. Ford — Sentto School at Stourbridge—Translations and original Compositions while atthis Place—Return Home—Arrival at Pembroke College, Oxford—His Tutor— Translation of Popes Messiah—Attack of Hypochondria—ReligiousImpressions—Course of Reading—Love of Literature—Apparent Recklessness-Real state of ^liND—Struggles with Poverty—Leaves the Univeesity. AMU EL JOHNSON was born at Lichfield inStaffordshire, on the 18th of September, N. ; and his initiation into the Christian churc
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