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The editor is in error in saying that the Earl of Liverpool who wrote this was son of the Prime Minister. He was his half-brother. Burke wrote to Garrick of Fitzherbert: 'You know and love him; but I assure you, until we can talk some late matters over, you, even you, can have no adequate idea of the worth of that man. Garrick Corres. i. 190. See ante, i. 82. 'I remember a man, writes Mrs.
'A death-bed's a detector of the heart. Here tired dissimulation drops her mask. Night Thoughts, ii. See ante, iii. 154. See ante, i. 408, 447; and ii. 219, 329. Dr. He was as eager about a new paper to his wife's drawing-room, or his own new wig, as about a new tragedy or a new epic poem. He adds, that he was 'capable of the most profound conversation, when circumstances led to it.
Johnson's caution against supposing one's self concealed in London, may be very useful to prevent some people from doing many things, not only foolish, but criminal. See ante, iii. 318. Johnson defines airy as gay, sprightly, full of mirth, &c. 'A man would be drowned by claret before it made him drunk. Ante, iii. 381. Ante, p. 137. See ante ii. 261. See ante, p. 95.
Johnson, that, in my zeal for his reputation, I remonstrated warmly with him on his strange inattention, and obtained his permission to take a copy of it; by which probably it has been preserved, as the original I have reason to suppose is lost. BOSWELL. See ante, iii. 441.
He was a famous general, the most prominent military character in our ante- Revolutionary annals; and he may be taken as the representative of a class of warriors peculiar to their age and country, true citizen- soldiers, who diversified a life of commerce or agriculture by the episode of a city sacked, or a battle won, and, having stamped their names on the page of history, went back to the routine of peaceful occupation.
If it had come to peace negotiations, he would have supported me in taking as a basis the status quo ante. His support and that was the third reason was of great value, for he was a man who knew how to fight. He had become hard and old on the battlefield of parliamentary controversy. He stood in awe of nothing and nobody and he was true as gold.
I sat up till midnight was past, and the day of a new year, a very awful day, began. Pr. and Med. pp. 181, 225. See ante, ii. 427, note 1. In one of his manuscript Diaries, there is the following entry, which marks his curious minute attention: 'July 26, 1768. I shaved my nail by accident in whetting the knife, about an eighth of an inch from the bottom, and about a fourth from the top.
I reckon the' wasn't another pair in the territory 'at could 'a' covered their ante that day, an' it was a feather in Uncle Happy's cap all right. But all the time I was thinkin' o' these things I was dreadin' havin' it out with Jabez. He was contrairy enough at the best; but all bunged up, I could see my self-control gettin' strained twice a minute.
American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. iii. p. 405. Ante, p. 106. To John Taylor, Sept. 10, 1810. Works of James Monroe, vol. vi. p. 128. Monroe to Jefferson, Monroe's Works, vol. v. p. 268. Annals of Congress, 1811-12, p. 2046.
On March 13, 1780, he wrote: 'Yesterday was published an octavo, pretending to contain the correspondence of Hackman and Miss Ray that he murdered. See ante, iii. 383. "Sir," said a stranger that overheard him, "that I deny; I am a tailor, and have had many apprentices, but never one that could make a coat till I had taken great pains in teaching him." See ante, iii. 443.
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