[197] Sharp was murdered on May 3, 1679, in a moor near St. Andrews.  Burnet’s History of his Own time, ed. 1818, ii. 82, and Scott’s Old Mortality, ed, 1860, ix. 297, and x. 203.

[198] ’One of its streets is now lost; and in those that remain there is the silence and solitude of inactive indigence and gloomy depopulation....  St. Andrews seems to be a place eminently adapted to study and education....  The students, however, are represented as, at this time, not exceeding a hundred.  I saw no reason for imputing their paucity to the present professors.’  Johnson’s Works, ix. 4.  A student, he adds, of lower rank could get his board, lodging, and instruction for less than ten pounds for the seven months of residence.  Stockdale says (Memoirs, i. 238) that ’in St. Andrews, in 1756, for a good bedroom, coals, and the attendance of a servant I paid one shilling a week.’

[199] The Compleat Fencing-Master, by Sir William Hope.  London, 1691.

[200] ’In the whole time of our stay we were gratified by every mode of kindness, and entertained with all the elegance of lettered hospitality’ Johnson’s Works, ix. 3.

[201] Dugald Stewart (Life of Adam Smith, p. 107) writes:—­’Mr. Smith observed to me not long before his death, that after all his practice in writing he composed as slowly, and with as great difficulty as at first.  He added at the same time that Mr. Hume had acquired so great a facility in this respect, that the last volumes of his History were printed from his original copy, with a few marginal corrections.’  See ante, iii. 437 and iv. 12.

[202] Of these only twenty-five have been published:  Johnson’s Works, ix. 289-525.  See ante, iii. 19, note 3, and 181.  Johnson wrote on April 20, 1778:—­’I have made sermons, perhaps as readily as formerly.’ Pr. and Med. p. 170.  ‘I should think,’ said Lord Eldon, ’that no clergyman ever wrote as many sermons as Lord Stowell.  I advised him to burn all his manuscripts of that kind.  It is not fair to the clergymen to have it known he wrote them.’  Twiss’s Eldon, iii. 286.  Johnson, we may be sure, had no copy of any of his sermons.  That none of them should be known but those he wrote for Taylor is strange.

[203] He made the same statement on June 3, 1781 (ante, iv. 127), adding, ‘I should be glad to see it [the translation] now.’  This shows that he was not speaking of his translation of Lobo, as Mr. Croker maintains in a note on this passage.  I believe he was speaking of his translation of Courayer’s Life of Paul Sarpi.  Ante, i. 135.

[204] ’As far as I am acquainted with modern architecture, I am aware of no streets which, in simplicity and manliness of style, or general breadth and brightness of effect, equal those of the New Town of Edinburgh.  But, etc.’  Ruskin’s Lectures on Architecture and Painting, p. 2.