La vie de Samuel Johnson, LL.D., comprenant un compte rendu de ses études et de nombreuses œuvres, dans l'ordre chronologique; Une série de sa correspondance épistolaire et des conversations avec de nombreuses personnes éminentes . mode de traitement de ses Meds, ont arraré mon jugement, au lieu de semaingque j'étais raisonnable de tout ce qu'ils pouvaient observer. Il est lié au grand Dr Clarke, que lorsque, dans l'une de ses heures de loisirs, il s'est défait avec quelques amis de la manière la plus joueuse et la plus froide, il a observé beau Nash approchant ; uponce qu'il a soudainement arrêté:— Mes garçons, dit-il, soyons graves; il

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The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works, in chronological order; a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons . mode oftreating his Mends, have arraigned my judgment, instead of seeingthat I was sensible of all that they could observe. It is related of the great Dr. Clarke, that when, in one of his leisurehours, he was unbending himself with a few friends in the most playfuland frolicsome manner, he observed Beau Nash approaching ; uponwhich he suddenly stopped:— My boys, said he, let us be grave ;here comes a fool. The world, my friend, I have found to be a greatfool, as to that particular on which it has become necessary to speakvery plainly. I have, therefore, in this work been more reserved ; andthough I tell nothing but the truth, I have still kept in my mind thatthe whole truth is not always to be exposed. This, however, I havemanaged so as to occasion no diminution of the pleasure which mybook should afford ; though malignity may sometimes be disappointedof its gratifications. I am, my dear Sir, Your much obliged friend, And faithful humble servant, JAMES BOSWELL.London, April 20, 1791.. JAMES BOSVrELL ADVEKTISEMENT TO THE FIEST EDITION. I AT last deliver to the world a work which I have long promised, and ofwhich, I am afraid, too high expectations have been raised. The delay of itspublication must be imputed, in a considerable degree, to the extraordinaryzeal which has been shown by distinguished persons in all quarters to supplyme with additional information concerning its illustrious subject; resemblingin this the grateful tribes of ancient nations, of which every individual waseager to throw a stone upon the grave of a departed Hero, and thus to sharein the pious office of erecting an honourable monument to his memory. The labour and anxious attention with which I have collected and arrangedthe materials of which these volumes are composed, will hardly be conc

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