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Here is a man six feet high, and you are angry because he is not seven. Notwithstanding this eloquent Oratio pro Pennantio, which they who have read this gentleman's Tours, and recollect the Savage and the Shopkeeper at Monboddo , will probably impute to the spirit of contradiction, I still think that he had better have given more attention to fewer things, than have thrown together such a number of imperfect accounts.
JOHNSON. 'I little thought, when I had the honour to meet your lordship in London, that I should see you at Monboddo. After dinner, as the ladies were going away, Dr Johnson would stand up. He insisted that politeness was of great consequence in society. 'It is, said he, 'fictitious benevolence. It supplies the place of it amongst those who see each other only in publick, or but little.
If they have tails, they hide them; but Monboddo is as jealous of his tail as a squirrel. I shall here put down some more remarks of Dr. Johnson's on Lord Monboddo, which were not made exactly at this time, but come in well from connection. Johnson mistaken.
Johnson's Dictionary to know that a boy is "a male child," i.e., the male young of man, so he who would go to the depth of things, and know scientifically what is a boy, must be able to ascertain "what is a man." But for aught I know, my father may have been satisfied with Buffon on that score, or he may have sided with Monboddo.
I should have thought it not possible to find a Monboddo; yet he exists. I again mentioned the stage. JOHNSON. 'The appearance of a player, with whom I have drunk tea, counteracts the imagination that he is the character he represents. Nay, you know, nobody imagines that he is the character he represents. They say, "See Garrick! how he looks to night! See how he'll clutch the dagger!"
I mentioned that Lord Monboddo told me, he awaked every morning at four, and then for his health got up and walked in his room naked, with the window open, which he called taking an air bath; after which he went to bed again, and slept two hours more.
But four of their number, the Lord President, Lord Elliock, Lord Monboddo, and Lord Covington, resolutely maintained the lawfulness of a status, which has been acknowledged in all ages and countries, and that when freedom flourished, as in old Greece and Rome . 'To JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ.
Dunning , the great lawyer, is one of our members. The Thrales are well. 'I long to know how the Negro's cause will be decided. What is the opinion of Lord Auchinleck, or Lord Hailes, or Lord Monboddo? 'I am, dear Sir, 'Your most affectionate, &c. 'July 22, 1777.
But man has no right to have 'clear ideas of the possible and impossible, like Faraday, a priori, except in the exact sciences. There are other instances of weak evidence which satisfies psychologists. Hamilton has an anecdote, borrowed from Monboddo, who got it from Mr. Hans Stanley, who, 'about twenty-six years ago, heard it from the subject of the story, Madame de Laval.
They can be stuck together or taken apart, but all the words which express relations, categories, and the like, are in themselves meaningless. The special objects of his scorn are 'Hermes' Harris, and Monboddo, who had tried to defend Aristotle against Locke. Monboddo had asserted that 'every kind of relation' is a pure 'idea of the intellect' not to be apprehended by sense.
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