Boswell's Life of Johnson, Vol. 2 of 6

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Excerpt from Boswell's Life of Johnson, Vol. 2 of 6: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, Life (1765-1776) That is to say, ' he added, 'to the last generation of the Royal Family.' See post, April 15, 1773. We may hope that the Royal Family were not all like the Duke of Glou cester, who, when Gibbon brought him the second volume of the Decline and Fall, received him with much good nature and a¿'ability, saying to him, as he laid the quarto on the table, Another d - d thick, square book Always scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Mr. Gibbon Best's Memorials, p. 68. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.