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I one day met him in the street, as I was hastening to the House of Lords, and told him, I was sorry I could not stop, being rather too late to attend an appeal of the Duke of Hamilton against Douglas. Most likely Sir A. Macdonald. Ante, p. 148. Boswell wrote on March 18,1775: 'Mr. Johnson, when enumerating our Club, observed of some of us, that they talked from books, Langton in particular.
'Influence, said Johnson, must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should. Boswell's Hebrides, Aug. 18. Boswell falls into what he calls 'the cant transmitted from age to age in praise of the ancient Romans. Ante, i. 311.
Here Mr. and Mrs. Thrale and Dr. Johnson staid three weeks. DUPPA. Mrs. Piozzi wrote in 1817: 'Poor old Lleweney Hall! pulled down after standing 1000 years in possession of the Salusburys. Hayward's Piozzi, ii. 206. Johnson's name for Mrs. Thrale. Ante, i. 494. Johnson wrote to Mrs.
Either dead or alive, I'm going to search your clothing inside of ten minutes; and if you have no preference as to whether the examination is an ante or post-mortem affair, I certainly haven't."
See ante, Aug. 30, 1780. John, Lord Carteret, and Earl Granville, who died Jan. 2, 1763. Works, iv. He was one of the best speakers in the House of Lords, both in the declamatory and argumentative way. Walpole describes the partiality of the members of the court-martial that sat on Admiral Keppel in Jan. 1779.
The will of King Alfred, alluded to in this letter, from the original Saxon, in the library of Mr. Astle, has been printed at the expense of the University of Oxford. He was a surgeon in this small Norfolk town. Dr. Burney's Memoirs, i. 106. Burney visited Johnson first in 1758, when he was living in Gough Square. Ante, i. 328. Mme. D'Arblay says that Dr. Johnson sent them to Dr.
His successor in the office of King's Printer was Mr. Robert Stanton. Ante, p. 171. Ante, p. 13. Ante, pp. 171-174. Ante, p. 136. Ante, p. 42 et seq. Sir Peregrine was gazetted to be "Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia and its dependencies" on the 14th of August, 1828.
See ante, ii. 59, note 1. See ante, iii. 368. 'Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning ... nor is caution ever so necessary as with associates or opponents of feeble minds. The Idler, No. 92. In a letter to Dr. ''Gainst fools be guarded; 'tis a certain rule, Wits are safe things, there's danger in a fool. See ante, p. 173.
It has been truly said that the lame, the blind, and the sorrowful found in his house a sure retreat. See also ante, iii. 222. At the same time it must be remembered that while Mrs. Desmoulins and Miss Carmichael only brought trouble into the house, in the society of Mrs. Williams and Levett he had real pleasure. See ante, i. 232, note 1, and 243, note 3.
Antiochus the Great, the natural ally of Philip, had, after the decisive victory of the Egyptians at Raphia in 537, to deem himself fortunate in obtaining peace from the indolent Philopator on the basis of the -status quo ante-. The rivalry of the Lagidae and the constant apprehension of a renewed outbreak of the war on the one hand, and insurrections of pretenders in the interior and enterprises of all sorts in Asia Minor, Bactria, and the eastern satrapies on the other, prevented him from joining that great anti-Roman alliance which Hannibal had in view.
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