'
[828] In Best's _Memorials_, p. 63, is given another of these lines
that Mr. Langton repeated:--'Five-poundon elendeto, ah! mala simplos.'
For Joshua Barnes see _post_, 1780, in Mr. Langton's _Collection_.
[829] See _ante_, iii. 78.
[830] Dr. Johnson, describing her needle-work in one of his letters to
Mrs. Thrale, vol. i. p. 326, uses the learned word _sutile_; which Mrs.
Thrale has mistaken, and made the phrase injurious by writing '_futile_
pictures.' BOSWELL. See _post_, p. 299.
[831] See _ante_, ii. 252, note 2.
[832] The revolution of 1772. The book was published in 1778. Charles
Sheridan was the elder brother of R.B. Sheridan.
[833] See _ante_, i. 467.
[834] As Physicians are called _the Faculty_, and Counsellors at
Law _the Profession_; the Booksellers of London are denominated _the
Trade_. Johnson disapproved of these denominations. BOSWELL. Johnson
himself once used this 'denomination.' _Ante_, i. 438.
[835] See _ante_, ii. 385.
[836] A translation of these forged letters which were written by
M. de Caraccioli was published in 1776. By the _Gent. Mag_. (xlvi. 563)
they were accepted as genuine. In _The Ann.
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