[50] Ib. ii. 296.
[51] Works, ix. 158.
[52] Ib. p. 154.
[53] Ib. p. 116.
[54] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 128.
[55] Ib. v. 248.
[56] Works, ix. 24. Hottentot—“a respectable Hottentot”—was the term which for more than a hundred years was supposed to have been applied to Johnson by Lord Chesterfield. I have proved, however, that it was not Johnson, but the first Lord Lyttelton who was meant. See my Dr. Johnson: His Friends and his Critics, p. 214, and my edition of Boswell’s Johnson, i. 267.
[57] Forbes’s Life of Beattie, p. 217.
[58] Works, ix. 76.
[59] Ib. p. 86.