FOOTNOTES:
[1] John Knox’s Tour through the Highlands, pp. 77, 132.
[2] Croker’s Boswell, p. 314.
[3] Croker’s Correspondence, ii. 33; Croker’s Boswell, p. 409.
[4] Johnson’s Works, ix. 36.
[5] Johnson calls this mountain “Ratiken;” Boswell, “the Rattakin.” It is known as Mam-Rattachan. Mam signifies a mountain pass or chasm. See Blackie’s Etymological Geography (ed. 1875), p. 112.
[6] Johnson’s Works, ix. 63.
[7] “The peats at Dunvegan, which were damp, Dr. Johnson called ‘a sullen fuel.’ Here a Scottish phrase was singularly applied to him. One of the company having remarked that he had gone out on a stormy evening, and brought in a supply of peats from the stack, old Mr. M’Sweyn said, ‘that was main honest.’”—Boswell’s Johnson, v. 303.
[8] See Boswell’s Johnson, v. 214, for Boswell’s account.
[9] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 258.
[10] My informant placed the scene of this story at the house of a Captain or Colonel Campbell in Mull. There was a Mr. Campbell, one of the Duke of Argyle’s tacksmen, or chief tenants, in that island, who furnished Boswell and Johnson with horses; but it is not mentioned that they went to his house—they certainly did not pass a night there. See Boswell’s Johnson, v. 332, 340.
[11] Johnson’s Works, ix. 142.
[12] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 341.
[13] See Les Confessions, bk. iii.
[14] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 256.
[15] Piozzi Letters, i. 138.
[16] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 337.
[17] See Letters of David Hume to William Strahan, pp. 56, 114, 132.
[18] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 20.
[19] Scots Magazine, 1773, p. 133.
[20] Ib. 1784, p. 685.
[21] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 406.
[22] Ib. ii. 305-6.
[23] Croker’s Correspondence, ii. 34.
[24] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 306.
[25] Ib. ii. 303-5.
[26] Letters from Edinburgh, 1774-5, London, 1776, published without a name, but written by Captain Edward Topham, pp. 137-140. Arnot, in his History of Edinburgh, p. 361, after ridiculing Topham’s statement, that golf is played on the top of Arthur’s Seat, continues: “These letters are written with spirit and impartiality. But the facts and criticisms contained in them are for the most part equally ill-founded. Yet so candid is the author amidst his errors, that it is hard to say whether he is more erroneous when he speaks in praise or censure of the Scottish nation.” It is possible and perhaps probable that he has exaggerated the ill-will against Johnson. The passage which he puts in quotation marks is not in the Journey.
[27] Knox’s Tour, p. lxvii.
[28] Burton’s Life of Hume, ii. 31.
[29] Boswell’s Johnson, i. 396.
[30] Walpole’s Journal of the Reign of George III. (ed. 1859), ii. 17, 483.
[31] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 307.
[32] Johnson’s Works, ix. 19.
[33] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 308.
[34] Macaulay’s Miscellaneous Writings, ed. 1871, p. 390.
[35] Remarks on Dr. Johnson’s Journey to the Hebrides, pp. 263-7.
[36] Remarks on Dr. Johnson’s Journey to the Hebrides, p. 270.
[37] Johnson’s Works, ix. 8.
[38] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 71.
[39] M’Nicol, p. 287.
[40] Piozzi Letters, i. 114.
[41] M’Nicol, p. 273.
[43] M’Nicol, p. 266.
[44] Boswell’s Johnson, iv. 183.
[45] Ib. ii. 435, n. 1, and Forbes’s Life of Beattie, p. 218.
[46] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 306.
[47] Ib. ii. 301.
[48] Ib. v. 20.
[49] Ib. ii. 307.
[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.
[60] Works, ix. 86.
[61] Ib.
[62] Ib. p. 112.
[63] Ib. p. 47.
[64] Ib. p. 115.
[65] Ib. p. 3. Johnson, it should be remarked, does not write “the ruffians of the Reformation.” He uses the word as South does, when he speaks of “those times which had reformed so many churches to the ground” (South’s Sermons, ed. 1823, i. 173). No man upheld the Reformed Church of England more strongly than South.
[66] Works, ix. 6.
[67] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 61.
[68] Works, ix. 61.
[69] Ib. p. 4.
[70] Ib. p. 7.
[71] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 306.
[72] Wesley’s Journal, iv. 74. He repeats this statement five years later (Ib. p. 207).
[73] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 290.
[74] Works, ix. 161.
[75] Ib. p. 159.
[76] Ib. p. 1.
[77] Ib. p. 3.
[78] Works, p. 11.
[79] Works, p. 14.
[80] Ib. p. 10.
[81] Ib. pp. 30, 159.
[82] Ib. p. 102.
[83] Ib. p. 54.
[84] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 288.
[85] Works, ix. 118.
[86] Ib. p. 25.
[87] Ib. p. 32.
[88] Ib. pp. 50, 97.
[89] Ib. p. 62.
[90] Ib. p. 67.
[91] Works, p. 63.
[92] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 318.
[93] Ib. iii. 236.
[94] Works, ix. 19, 51.
[95] Ib. p. 52.
[96] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 146.
[97] Piozzi Letters, i. 137.
[98] Ib. pp. 127, 165.
[99] Ib. p. 182.
[100] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 262.
[101] Ib. v. 283.
[102] Piozzi Letters, i. 167.
[103] Works, ix. 117.
[104] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 283, n. 1.
[105] Francis’s Horace, Odes, IV. ix. 26.
[106] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 14.
[107] From the original, in the possession of Mr. W. R. Smith, of Greatham Moor, West Liss.
[108] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 344.
[109] Ib. 392.
[110] “Through various hazards and events we move.” Dryden, Æneid, i. 204.
[111] “Long labours both by sea and land he bore.” Ib. i. 3.
[112] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 268.
[113] Boswell’s Johnson, i. 450.
[114] Ib.
[115] He was sixty-four.
[116] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 278.
[117] Piozzi Letters, i. 158.
[118] Ib. i. 120.
[119] Ib. i. 188.
[120] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 324.
[121] Ib. iv. 199.
[122] Ib. v. 377.
[123] Tour in Scotland (ed. 1776), ii. 59. The Bruar is near Blair-Athole.
[124] Johnson’s Works, ix. 84.
[125] Troil’s Letters on Iceland (3rd ed.), p. 288. There is a notice of the discovery in the Gentleman’s Magazine for 1772, p. 540, and in the Annual Register for the same year, i. 139.
[126] Boswell’s Johnson, i. 348.
[127] Topham’s Letters from Edinburgh, p. 233.
[128] He was stationed there with his regiment. Wright’s Life of General Wolfe, p. 271.
[129] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 141.
[130] Ib. iii. 303.
[131] Gray’s Works, iv. 57.
[132] Ib. ii. 78.
[133] George Selwyn and his Contemporaries, ii. 319.
[134] Camden’s Description of Scotland (ed. 1695), p. 137.
[135] Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland, ii. 339.
[136] Ib. p. 13.
[137] James Ray’s History of the Rebellion of 1747 (ed. 1752), pp. 365, 383.
[138] Gray’s Works, iv. 150.
[139] Walpole’s Letters, v. 501.
[140] An Excursion to the Lakes, p. 157.
[141] Wesley’s Journal, iii. 336, 465.
[142] Tour in Scotland, i. 222.
[143] Beattie’s Essays on Poetry and Music, p. 169.
[144] Voyage en Angleterre, etc., ii. 201.
[145] Piozzi Letters, i. 154, and Boswell’s Johnson, v. 231.
[146] Croker’s Boswell (ed. 1835), iv. 327.
[147] Boswell’s Johnson, iii. 302.
[148] Johnson’s Works, ix. 25.
[149] Piozzi Letters, i. 138.
[150] Works, ix. 78, 153.
[151] Ib. p. 153.
[152] Ib. p. 156.
[153] Ib. p. 150.
[154] Ib. p. 35.
[155] Piozzi Letters, i. 135.
[156] Works, ix. 73.
[157] Ib. p. 156.
[158] Piozzi Letters, i. 169.
[159] Works, ix. 25.
[160] Ib. p. 36.
[161] Lockhart’s Life of Scott, iii. 239.
[162] Goldsmith’s Traveller, l. 319.
[163] Wordsworth’s Works, ii. 284.
[164] The Traveller, l. 125.
[165] Wordsworth’s Works, iv. 99.
[166] Scotland and Scotsmen in the Eighteenth Century, ii. 99.