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Johnson the Place of my family, which he has honoured with so much attention in his Journey. He is, however, mistaken in thinking that the Celtick name, Auchinleck, has no relation to the natural appearance of it. I believe every Celtick name of a place will be found very descriptive.
His conviviality engaged them so much, that they seemed eager to shew their attention to him, and vied with each other in crying out, with a strong Celtick pronunciation, 'Toctor Shonson, Toctor Shonson, your health!
Johnson and I, that we did not assign him a proper place; for he was quite unskilled in Irish antiquities and Celtick learning, but might with propriety have been made professor of architecture, which he understood well, and has left a very good specimen of his knowledge and taste in that art, by an elegant house built on a plan of his own formation, at Lucan, a few miles from Dublin.
I was glad to have at length a very fine day, on which I could shew Dr Johnson the place of my family, which he has honoured with so much attention in his Journey. He is, however, mistaken in thinking that the Celtick name, Auchinleck, has no relation to the natural appearance of it. I believe every Celtick name of a place will be found very descriptive.
I was to teach Civil and Scotch law ; Burke, politicks and eloquence; Garrick, the art of publick speaking; Langton was to be our Grecian , Colman our Latin professor ; Nugent to teach physick ; Lord Charlemont, modern history ; Beauclerk, natural philosophy ; Vesey, Irish antiquities, or Celtick learning ; Jones, Oriental learning ; Goldsmith, poetry and ancient history; Chamier, commercial politicks ; Reynolds, painting, and the arts which have beauty for their object; Chambers, the law of England . Dr.
His conviviality engaged them so much, that they seemed eager to shew their attention to him, and vied with each other in crying out, with a strong Celtick pronunciation, 'Toctor Shonson, Toctor Shonson, your health! This evening one of our married ladies, a lively pretty little woman, good-humouredly sat down upon Dr.
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