[943] See ante, i. 71, and ii. 226.
[944] Captain Cook's third voyage. The first two volumes by Captain Cook; the last by Captain King.
[945] See ante, ii. 73, 228, 248; iii. 49.
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[947] See ante, i. 71.
[948] See ante, i. 203, note 6.
[949] Boswell began to eat dinners in the Inner Temple so early as 1775. Ante, ii. 377, note 1. He was not called till Hilary Term, 1786. Rogers's Boswelliana, p. 143.
[950] Mr. (afterwards Sir) William Jones wrote two years earlier (Life, p. 268):—'Whether it be a wise part to live uncomfortably in order to die wealthy, is another question; but this I know by experience, and have heard old practitioners make the same observation, that a lawyer who is in earnest must be chained to his chambers and the bar for ten or twelve years together.'
[951] Johnson's Prologue at the opening of Drury Lane Theatre. Works, i. 23.