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Aetat.20.] the Universities abroad. I'll go to France and Italy. I'll go to Padua .—And I'll mind my business. For an Athenian blockhead is the worst of all blockheads .'

Dr. Adams told me that Johnson, while he was at Pembroke College, 'was caressed and loved by all about him, as a gay and frolicksome fellow, and passed there the happiest part of his life.' But this is a striking proof of the fallacy of appearances, and how little any of us know of the real internal state even of those whom we see most frequently; for the truth is, that he was then depressed by poverty, and irritated by disease. When I mentioned to him this account