"He was a Scholar, and a ripe and good one: "And to add greater honours to his age "Than man could give him, he died fearing Heaven. SHAKSPEARE. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. COXHEAD, 249, HIGH HOLBORN. APR 28 '38 OT ADVERTISEMENT. THE approbation bestowed on Boswell's Life of Johnson, suggested the propriety of the Selection now offered to the Public. The sentiments of that great moralist and judge of human nature, on various interesting topics, are here arranged and digested in a manner which, it is hoped, will prove agreeable to a numerous class of readers; those, namely, who seek for instruction from works which they may take up or lay down at pleasure, without interrupting the chain of an argument, or the circumstances of a narration. Dr. Johnson's conversation possessed precisely that excellence so well described by Lord Verulam: "It is good in discourse and speech of conversation (says his Lordship, in the quaint but expressive language of his age), to vary and intermingle speech of the present occasion with arguments; tales with reasons; asking of questions with telling of opinions; and jest with earnest." FEL25 38 |