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The importance of the matter, as an object of literary curiosity, will excuse the introduction, in an abbreviated form, of what passed at that interview, as well as of some minor circumstances connected with the question. During the printing of Almon's edition of Junius, in which he endeavoured to show that the letters were written by a Mr.
On mentioning Almon's new edition of Junius, and that the editor had fixed on Boyd as the author, the Marquis exclaimed, "I thought Almon had known better: I gave him credit for more discernment: the world will, however, not be deceived by him; for there is higher evidence than his opinion. Look at Boyd's other writings: he never did write like Junius; and never could write like Junius.
Johnson returns thanks to Mr. and Miss Wilkes for their kind invitation; but he is engaged for Tuesday to Sir Joshua Reynolds, and for Wednesday to Mr. Paradise. Owing to Boswell's return to Scotland, another day could not be fixed. Almon's Wilkes, iv. 314, 321. 'If the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be. Ecclesiastes, xi. 3.
Grattan wrote a very candid denial of any knowledge of the matter, in a letter which was printed in the preface to Almon's edition. Of the pretension afterwards set forward for Dr. Wilmot, I believe it was never entertained or supported by any good evidence: Dr. Francis, the father of Sir Philip, had been long before mentioned, but for what reason I have never been able to ascertain.
MacNab at once resigned their seats in the government on the ground that Mr. Almon's appointment was a violation of the compact by which two Liberals had been induced to join the ministry, and was most unjust to the forty or fifty gentlemen who, in both branches, had sustained the administration for several years. Instead of authorising Mr.
Almon, not simply on the ground that he had not been previously engaged in political life to any extent, but chiefly because he wished to show his own confidence in Mr. Johnston, Mr. Almon's brother-in-law. Lord Falkland had obviously thrown himself into the arms of the astute attorney-general and his political friends.
It is the warmest wish of my heart that the Earl of Bute may speedily complete the story of Roger Mortimer." Almon's Wilkes, i. 70, 86. Yet Wilkes within less than a year violently attacked Johnson in parliament. He said, 'The two famous doctors, Shebbeare and Johnson, are in this reign the state hirelings called pensioners. Their names, he continued, 'disgraced the Civil List.
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