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��pleasant humour, nor warm enough for love. This is talked of some- times among the younger men, but as a thing they have heard of rather

than felt ; and as a discourse that becomes them rather than affects them." ' All this was the very reverse of Boswell's eager and wild youth, though perhaps not

��unlike the character of his father and grandfather. There was one thing in common between Johnson and the old judge, both were sound scholars. At Auchinleck there

���was a library " which," says Boswell," in curious editions of the Greek and Roman classics is, I suppose, not excelled by any private collec- tion in Great Britain."

1 Temple's Works, ed. 1757, i. 160.

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