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much malt as Mr. Thrale, and sells his beer at the same price, though he pays no duty for malt, and little more than half as much for beer."

307. In favour of hereditary tenures. Bozzy's scheme. 315.

I am afraid of scruples.

329. Management of the mind acquireable. It is madness to attempt to think down distressing thoughts.1

335. Campbell broke his heart because of the ill success of his Political Survey. 337. "Tristram Shandy did not last!" 339. His love of inns and post-chaises. 340. He undervalued Dyer's Fleece. 346. Nelson's Fest. and Fasts had the greatest sale of any book ever printed in England except the Bible.

354. When people see a man absurd in what they understand, they may conclude the same of him in what they do not understand. Applied to a physician who lost practice because he had "whimsically" changed his religion.

379. He thought, and justly, that our Universities were too poor, and wished there were many places of £1000 a year at Oxford, to keep first-rate men of learning from quitting it.

414. Religion of the Polynesians. J. J. was mistaken here, and greatly so, though he seemed to reason clearly.

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150. A good note of C.'s upon free agency.

155. Question concerning ghosts, "whether in theology or philosophy, one of the most important that can come before the human understanding."

163. "I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain." True, both as to the poor, and to the souls of his flock. 171. Marshall's Minutes of Agriculture, 1778. He says, "I was born in the wilds of Christianity, and the briars and thorns still hang about me!"

223. Appointing mayors by seniority. "B. Is not that taking a mere chance for having a good or a bad mayor? J. Yes, Sir; but the evil of competition is greater than that of the worst mayor that can come. Besides, there is no more reason to suppose that the choice of a rabble will be right, than that chance will be right."

285. The House of Commons originally not a privilege of the people, but a check for the Crown on the House of Lords. 287. Wrong about an union with Ireland.

343. "The State has a right to regulate the religion of the people, who are the children of the State."

344. "I have got no farther than this; every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth (in religion); and every other' man has a right to knock him down for it." An author reading his poem in public for money.

345. "Bolder words and more timorous meaning, I think, never were brought together."

348. Good reason for reading romances. 471. Hollis, very truly characterized. 500. Some one wishing that a better provision were made for parish clerks, J. said, "Yes, Sir; a parish clerk should be a man who is able to make a will or write a letter for anybody in the parish."

Vol. 5.

P. 73. R. OWEN CAMBRIDGE. 84. Language must have come by inspiration.

91. He is wrong about natural affection. 93. A good note of Markland's on the part which has been so much objected to in the Burial Service.

97. Right of restraint in the magistrate. 100. What sort of reading he liked. He had no pleasure in writing verses. 188. "J. A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety."

"I would be a papist if I could. I have fear enough. But an obstinate rationality prevents me."

201. Hannah More thought Milton's sonnets poor, and Johnson did not differ with her.

205. A very erroneous opinion that one set of savages is like another, and that nobody would read Cooke's Voyages.

230. Tyranny of schoolmasters. 294. Causes of scepticism.

410. Dr. Hunter the master of the Grammar School at Lichfield. Miss Seward's grandfather never taught a boy in his life; he whipped, and they learnt."

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433. "I do not much wish well to discoveries, for I am always afraid they will end in conquest and robbery."

Speaking of Phipps's voyage.

FORBES'S Life of Beattie.

49. He was not taken in by Ossian. 52. He used to express himself uncommonly fond of the mock heroic, and had written a poem called the Grotesquiad, which he destroyed.

59. His verses on the death of Churchill mentioned, but suppressed.

65. An amiable account of Gray.

69. Just notions of style. Odd that compound epithets should then have needed a defence.

70. His doctrine concerning truth.

71. "That modification of intellect which qualifies a man to be a sceptic, is, not genius, but the want of it."

74. Advised to translate Tasso.

78. "I am thankful to Providence for having endued me with an inclination to poetry; for though I have never been supremely blest in my own muse, I have certainly been gratified in the most exquisite degree by the productions of others." 79. Spenser's stanza.

80. He never expected to finish the Minstrel, and resolved to write no more poetry till he saw some dawnings of a poetical taste in the public.

92. Percy's Dissertation gave birth to the Minstrel. His plan. 147. 325-45-6. 108. Alexander Ross of Lochlee,—a poor schoolmaster's poems. 1768.

120. How he became a metaphysician. 123.

121. Just view of sceptical philosophy.

124.

130. And of revelation.

132. He wished for Protestant convents. 133. Better church music, and more ce

P. 4. OGILVY's Virgil the first poem he remony.

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"That music which we (Presbyterians) have retained being in general so very bad, that it is necessary for a person to have a bad ear before he can relish the worship of the Church of Scotland."

137-9. Publication of his Essay on Truth -manœuvre of his friends.

142. Enjoyment of the Arabian Nights, &c. after metaphysics.

149. Armstrong, and his Miscellanies.

160. Defence of his plain speaking concerning Hume. 180.

162. Human liberty a self-evident fact. 168. Berkeley's error: the evidence of Christianity being a perpetual appeal to the truth of our senses.

171. Opinions of public and private education-in favour, decidedly, of public. 184. Lord Lyttleton's praise of the Minstrel.

187. Mrs. Montagu's remarks on it, and on Spenser.

188. Gray's-the verbal ones are not good.

198. Edwin his own portrait.

210. Defence of comic parts in tragedy. 214. Effect of Scotch scenery.

225. "In other countries infidels appear but as individuals; but in Scotland they form a party, whose principle is to discountenance and bear down religion to the utmost of their power." 1772.

252. "Mrs. Montagu told him in very explicit, though delicate terms, that if government did nothing, she would herself | claim the honour of rendering his situation in life more comfortable."

264. George the Third said that three services being joined made the service much too long.

281. Change of character since he was the minstrel.

288. He considers Scotch universities bad places for English students, and his own Socratical conversations the most profitable part of his own teaching. 289.

293. Edinburgh magistrates very seldom swayed by political interests in the appointment of professors.

296. Declines an invitation to a professorship at Edinburgh. 309-18.

302. Counter-motives.

308. His duties at Aberdeen.

316. His epitaph is by Dr. Gregory. 323. Calumniated by the liberals. 327. Bishop Law's opinions.

330. Society for the relief of the deserving poor.

331. The system of innate goodness.

332. Remarks on the effect of poor laws. 350. A living of £500 a year offered him by a bishop-Thomas, of Winchester. 351. A beautiful letter of refusal, 376. 377. Providential escape in an overturn. 399. His opinion of the version of the Psalms. Vol. 2. 6-14.

405. Of his own prose, 417; and of Scotch prose, 418. 406. Death.

Vol. 2.

P. 1. JUBILEE proposed for Thomson. 2. "If I have any true relish for the beauties of nature, I may say with truth that it was from Virgil and from Thomson that I caught it."

10. "We are all physicians when we arrive at forty; and as I have been studying the anatomy of the human mind these fifteen years and upwards, I think I ought to be something of a soul doctor by this time."

16. On our ritual-wish for a little pomp.

17. Effect of his metaphysical studies on himself.

19. Garrick. "On the stage nobody could admire him more than I did, and yet I am not sure whether I did not admire him still more in private company."

22. Mrs. Montagu would have had no musical instruments in churches.

24. Elphinstone. "His own style is not free from Scotticisms, which, however, is one of his least faults; for so affected and enigmatical is his phraseology, that he cannot be said to have a style at all." 95. His Martial.

46. Monboddo firmly believed that there were men with tails in this country.

49. His secluded life, and its ill effect on him. 50-1, 60.

56. He preferred persuasive to minatory sermons.

63. He thought it particularly dangerous to walk among trees in the evening, because of the damp.

66. Gaudentio de Lucca he admired.

70. Sensitiveness and domestic troubles. 90. Scott of Amwell, 92. His opinion of versification, 107.

104. Politics, a despotic principle wanted in extreme cases, he thought.

108. The younger Hoole.

Scott of Amwell's opinion of Crabbe. 112. Ariosto too extravagant for Beattie. 118. A blank to be filled up with a friend's name, in the last stanza of his first canto.

120. Fear of democracy. 1784.

121. Monboddo. "I am told he is angry at my last book, and says I know nothing of the origin of language," &c.

134. Catechising ill-managed in the kirk of Scotland. Bishop Porteus's practice,

137.

142. His poor friend Mrs. Arbuthnot, 147. 230.

148." With peculiar pleasure I took notice of that laudable English custom of permitting the poor and the infirm to glean the fields."

151. Arbuthnot, 155.

155. "Lord Monboddo never has pardoned me for calling Captain Cook a philosopher, and I am afraid never will."

158. Reid too respectful to his oppo

nents.

160. Prose MSS. of Prior in the Duchess of Portland's possession.

162. Remarks of Boswellizing. 165. Johnson and Milton, 207. 207. Pope's Homer and Dryden's Virgil,

301.

215. 1788. A pamphlet on the licitness of the slave trade, "by a Spanish Jesuit, named Harris (?) who it seems is connected with the slave merchants of Liverpool, by whose means he hopes to obtain preferment in the Church of England, to which he is willing to conform."

220. Goldsmith's envy. B. thought Edwin and Angelina exceedingly beautiful and well-conducted!

225. Gibbon.

229. B. had been twenty-five years collecting materials on the slave trade, 1789. 274. Often touched on in his lectures. 230. French Revolution.

245. His sorrows, 257. His son's grave, 266-97.

291. Effect of his second son's deatha loss of memory concerning him for a time, 295-9. 303.

304. Warton's Pope censured.

Opinion of Gray's letters. "They very much resembled what his conversation was. He had none of the airs of either a scholar or a poet."

"I have known

306. Mrs. Montagu. several ladies eminent in literature, but she excelled them all; and in conversation she had more wit than any other person, male or female, whom I have ever known."

Her husband was an unbeliever. 310. The exact sciences brought on her head-aches.

310. Butler, Clarke, Secker, and Porteus his favourites among our divines. 315. Gratitude of his pupils. 319. Himself eminently grateful. 320. Controversy had rendered him not a little irritable as respected authors.

321. He disliked cards, but had a real aversion to chess, as occasioning a great waste of time, and requiring an useless application of thought.

322. Fond of punning, though a bad punster.

325. Wine he took as an opiate, some times too much.

369. He had a singular, but deep-rooted aversion all his life to the crowing of a cock.

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