[366] M. Forbes’s Beattie and his Friends, p. 66.
[367] Ib. p. 68.
[368] Forbes’s Life of Beattie 1. 255; May 1773.
[369] Ib. 1. 260. Extract from Beattie’s Diary; 21 May 1773.
[370] Correspondence of Mrs. Delany 4. 516; 13 June 1773.
[371] M. Forbes, op. cit. 78. In this matter Johnson’s view happened to coincide with hers (ib. p. 90).
[372] Ib. p. 75.
[373] Ib. pp. 95-6.
[374] Essays, Edinburgh 1776.
[375] M. Forbes, p. 120.