Category: Biographies
Having left Ashbourne in the evening, we stopped to change horses at Derby, and availed ourselves of a moment to enjoy the conversation of my countryman, Dr. Butter, then physician there. He was in great indignation because Lord Mountstuart's bill for a Scotch militia[1] had b...
Having left Ashbourne in the evening, we stopped to change horses at Derby, and availed ourselves of a moment to enjoy the conversation of my countryman, Dr. Butter, then physic...
2. Chapter 2BOSWELL. 'I drank chocolate, Sir, this morning with Mr. Eld; and, to my no small surprize, found him to be a _Staffordshire Whig_[965], a being which I did not believe had exist...
10. Chapter 10'There Cornewall sits, and oh! unhappy fate! Must sit for ever through the long debate. Painful pre-eminence! he hears, 'tis true, Fox, North, and Burke, but hears Sir Joseph too.'
14. Chapter 14down rules of economy--rules which, to quote his own words (p. 337), 'require little, if any, more power of mind, than to be sure to put on a clean shirt every day.' Boswell rec...
5. Chapter 5'I am much obliged to you for the very polite terms in which you have been pleased to communicate to me my election to be Secretary for Foreign Correspondence to the Royal Acade...
15. Chapter 15Fielding, in _Tom Jones_, bk. viii. ch. 9, says that 'interest is indeed a most excellent medicine, and, like Ward's pill, flies at once to the particular part of the body on wh...
13. Chapter 13forty years, and never was interrupted yet.' Baretti, who was a great traveller, says:--'For my part I never met with any robbers in my various rambles through several regions o...
9. Chapter 9[209] 'Owen MacSwinny, a buffoon; formerly director of the play-house.' Horace Walpole, _Letters_, i. 118. Walpole records one of his puns. 'Old Horace' had left the House of Co...
11. Chapter 11poets, which are now eagerly sought after; yet, though all his publications were of the best kinds, and are now of increasing value, the taste of Tom Davies twice ended in bankr...
7. Chapter 7[172] 'We were talking of Dr. Barnard, the Provost of Eton. "He was the only man," says Mr. Johnson quite seriously, "that did justice to my good breeding; and you may observe t...
12. Chapter 12Horace Walpole says of Lord Mansfield's speech on the _Habeas Corpus Bill_ of 1758:--'Perhaps it was the only speech that in my time at least had real effect; that is, convinced...
6. Chapter 6[162] Horace Walpole says (_Works_, iv. 224) that when he was 'dining at the Royal Academy, Dr. Goldsmith drew the attention of the company with an account of a marvellous treas...
3. Chapter 3'Avreste forse illustrissimi Signori potuto scegliere molte persone piu degne dell' ufficcio di Segretario per la corrispondenza straniera; ma non sarebbe, son certo, stato poss...
8. Chapter 8[196] He was at this time 'employed by Congress as a private and confidential agent in England.' Dr. Franklin had arranged for letters to be sent to him, not by post but by priv...
4. Chapter 4'Your unsolicited and unanimous election of me to be Secretary for Foreign Correspondence to your Academy, and the gracious confirmation of my election by his Majesty, I acknowl...