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The Works of Samuel Johnson, in Sixteen
The Works of Samuel Johnson, in Sixteen

Chapter XXVII · Chapter 27

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Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.
It is an elegant summary of Crichton's life which is in Mackenzie's Writers of the Scotch Nation.
See a fuller account by the Earl of Buchan and Dr. Kippis in the Biog.
Brit. and the recently published one by Mr. Frazer Tytler.
No. 84.
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, in Sixteen

Chapter XXVII · Chapter 27

Chapter 27 of The Works of Samuel Johnson, in Sixteen is here in full — 82 sentences across 17 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.
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It is an elegant summary of Crichton's life which is in Mackenzie's Writers of the Scotch Nation.
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See a fuller account by the Earl of Buchan and Dr. Kippis in the Biog.
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Brit. and the recently published one by Mr. Frazer Tytler.
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No. 84.

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Memory noun US /ˈmem.ər.i/

The faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information and knowledge.

From this reading “Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.”

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84

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From this reading No. 84.

a

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

account

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From this reading See a fuller account by the Earl of Buchan and Dr. Kippis in the Biog.

Admirable

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

adorned

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

among

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

an

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From this reading It is an elegant summary of Crichton's life which is in Mackenzie's Writers of the Scotch Nation.

and

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

Bathurst

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

Biog

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From this reading See a fuller account by the Earl of Buchan and Dr. Kippis in the Biog.

book

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

Brit

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From this reading Brit. and the recently published one by Mr. Frazer Tytler.

brought

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

Buchan

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From this reading See a fuller account by the Earl of Buchan and Dr. Kippis in the Biog.

but

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

by

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

Chalmers

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

contemporary

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

could

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

court

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

Crichton

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

Crichton's

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From this reading It is an elegant summary of Crichton's life which is in Mackenzie's Writers of the Scotch Nation.

dictated

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

Dr

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From this reading See a fuller account by the Earl of Buchan and Dr. Kippis in the Biog.

Earl

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From this reading See a fuller account by the Earl of Buchan and Dr. Kippis in the Biog.

elegant

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From this reading It is an elegant summary of Crichton's life which is in Mackenzie's Writers of the Scotch Nation.

empty

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

encomiums

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

enumerated

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

esteem

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

excel

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

few

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

Frazer

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From this reading Brit. and the recently published one by Mr. Frazer Tytler.

fuller

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From this reading See a fuller account by the Earl of Buchan and Dr. Kippis in the Biog.

hand

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

Hawkesworth

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

he

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

him

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

his

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

honours

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

horseback

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

i

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

in

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

into

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

is

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

It

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From this reading It is an elegant summary of Crichton's life which is in Mackenzie's Writers of the Scotch Nation.

Italy

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

Johnson

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

Kippis

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From this reading See a fuller account by the Earl of Buchan and Dr. Kippis in the Biog.

lance

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

life

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From this reading It is an elegant summary of Crichton's life which is in Mackenzie's Writers of the Scotch Nation.

Mackenzie's

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From this reading It is an elegant summary of Crichton's life which is in Mackenzie's Writers of the Scotch Nation.

mankind

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

Mantua

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

meanest

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

memorynounUS /ˈmem.ər.i/

The faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information and knowledge.

From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

mourning

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

Mr

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From this reading Brit. and the recently published one by Mr. Frazer Tytler.

Nation

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From this reading It is an elegant summary of Crichton's life which is in Mackenzie's Writers of the Scotch Nation.

No

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From this reading No. 84.

not

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

of

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

on

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

one

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

only

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

other

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

paid

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

palaces

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

paper

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

pictures

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

profuse

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

publick

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

published

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From this reading Brit. and the recently published one by Mr. Frazer Tytler.

recently

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From this reading Brit. and the recently published one by Mr. Frazer Tytler.

representing

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

Scotch

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From this reading It is an elegant summary of Crichton's life which is in Mackenzie's Writers of the Scotch Nation.

See

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From this reading See a fuller account by the Earl of Buchan and Dr. Kippis in the Biog.

state

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

summary

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From this reading It is an elegant summary of Crichton's life which is in Mackenzie's Writers of the Scotch Nation.

testified

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

that

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

the

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

their

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

This

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

those

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

Thus

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

to

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

Tytler

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From this reading Brit. and the recently published one by Mr. Frazer Tytler.

was

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

were

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

which

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

with

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

wits

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From this reading Thus was the Admirable Crichton brought into that state, in which he could excel the meanest of mankind only by a few empty honours paid to his memory: the court of Mantua testified their esteem by a publick mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other[i]. [i] This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

Writers

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From this reading It is an elegant summary of Crichton's life which is in Mackenzie's Writers of the Scotch Nation.

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