[329] See ante, iv. 8, note 3, and iv. 20.

[330] Colman had translated Terence.  Ante, iv. 18.

[331] Dr. Nugent was Burke’s father-in-law. Ante, i. 477.

[332] Lord Charlemont left behind him a History of Italian Poetry.  Hardy’s Charlemont, i. 306, ii. 437.

[333] See ante, i. 250, and ii. 378, note 1.

[334] Since the first edition, it has been suggested by one of the club, who knew Mr. Vesey better than Dr. Johnson and I, that we did not assign him a proper place; for he was quite unskilled in Irish antiquities and Celtick learning, but might with propriety have been made professor of architecture, which he understood well, and has left a very good specimen of his knowledge and taste in that art, by an elegant house built on a plan of his own formation, at Lucan, a few miles from Dublin.  BOSWELL.  See ante, iv. 28.

[335] Sir William Jones, who died at the age of forty-seven, had ’studied eight languages critically, eight less perfectly, but all intelligible with a dictionary, and twelve least perfectly, but all attainable.’  Teignmouth’s Life of Sir W. Jones, ed. 1815, p. 465.  See ante, iv. 69.

[336] See ante, i. 478.

[337] See ante, p. 16.

[338] Mackintosh in his Life, ii. 171, says:—­’From the refinements of abstruse speculation Johnson was withheld, partly perhaps by that repugnance to such subtleties which much experience often inspires, and partly also by a secret dread that they might disturb those prejudices in which his mind had found repose from the agitations of doubt.’

[339] See ante, iv. 11, note 1.

[340] Our Club, originally at the Turk’s Head, Gerrard-street, then at Prince’s, Sackville-street, now at Baxter’s, Dover-street, which at Mr. Garrick’s funeral acquired a name for the first time, and was called THE LITERARY CLUB, was instituted in 1764, and now consists of thirty-five members.  It has, since 1773, been greatly augmented; and though Dr. Johnson with justice observed, that, by losing Goldsmith, Garrick, Nugent, Chamier, Beauclerk, we had lost what would make an eminent club, yet when I mentioned, as an accession, Mr. Fox, Dr. George Fordyce, Sir Charles Bunbury, Lord Ossory, Mr. Gibbon, Dr. Adam Smith, Mr. R.B.  Sheridan, the Bishops of Kilaloe and St. Asaph, Dean Marley, Mr. Steevens, Mr. Dunning, Sir Joseph Banks, Dr. Scott of the Commons, Earl Spencer, Mr. Windham of Norfolk, Lord Elliott, Mr. Malone, Dr. Joseph Warton, the Rev. Thomas Warton, Lord Lucan, Mr. Burke junior, Lord Palmerston, Dr. Burney, Sir William Hamilton, and Dr. Warren, it will be acknowledged that we might establish a second university of high reputation.  BOSWELL.  Mr. (afterwards Sir) William Jones wrote in 1780 (Life, p. 241):—­’Of our club I will only say that there is no branch of human knowledge on which some of our members are not capable of giving information.’