By that gentleman's
advice, Boswell's manuscripts were left to the disposal of his family;
and it is believed that the whole were immediately destroyed.' The
indolence of Malone and Temple, and the brutish ignorance of the
Boswells, have indeed much to answer for. See _ante_, i. 225, note 2,
and _post_, May 12, 1778.
[882] 'He that would travel for the entertainment of others should
remember that the great object of remark is human life.' _The Idler_,
No. 97.
[883] See _ante_, ii. 377.
[884] Johnson recorded (_Pr. and Med_. p. 163):--'Boswell came in to go
to Church ... Talk lost our time, and we came to Church late, at the
Second Lesson.'
[885] See _ante_, i. 461.
[886] Oliver Edwards entered Pembroke College in June, 1729. He left in
April, 1730.
[887] _Pr. and Med_. p. 164. BOSWELL.
[888] 'Edwards observed how many we have outlived. I hope, yet hope, that
my future life shall be better than my past.' _Pr. and Med_. p. 166.
[889] See _post_, April 30, 1778.
[890] See _ante_, p. 221.
[891] 'Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little
matters.' _Ante_, i. 471.
[892] Johnson said to me afterwards, 'Sir, they respected me for my
literature; and yet it was not great but by comparison.
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