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FOR a criticism, most likely by Malone, of Mrs. Piozzi's anecdote of the dinner at a nobleman's house, see Life, iv. 343.

��Swift's hatred of the world and love of certain individuals, to which Johnson refers, was expressed in a letter to Pope, dated September 29, 1725, in which he says: 'I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities ; and all my love is towards individuals ; for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor such a one and Judge such a one. It is so with physicians (I will not speak of my own trade), soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.' Swift's Works, ed. 1803, xvii. 211.

(Vol. 1.342.)

Mr. R. B. Adam, of Buffalo, has in his collection three impressions of J. Heath's engraving of the first portrait of Johnson painted by Reynolds. ' I found,' writes Boswell, ' that I had a very perfect idea of Johnson's figure from the portrait of him painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds soon after he had published his Dictionary, in the attitude of sitting in his easy chair in deep meditation, which was the first picture his friend did for him, which Sir Joshua very kindly presented to me, and from which an engraving has been made for this work.' Life, i. 392. See also ib. iv. 422 n.

The last of the three impressions is of the engraving as it was published. On the margins of the first and second are the following inscriptions in Boswell's handwriting :

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