[213] ’I should scarcely have regretted my journey, had it afforded nothing more than the sight of Aberbrothick.’ Works, ix. 9.

[214] Johnson referred, I believe, to the last of Tillotson’s Sermons preached upon Several Occasions, ed. 1673, p. 316, where the preacher says:—­’Supposing the Scripture to be a Divine Revelation, and that these words (This is My Body), if they be in Scripture, must necessarily be taken in the strict and literal sense, I ask now, What greater evidence any man has that these words (This is My Body) are in the Bible than every man has that the bread is not changed in the sacrament?  Nay, no man has so much, for we have only the evidence of one sense that these words are in the Bible, but that the bread is not changed we have the concurring testimony of several of our senses.’

[215] This also is Tillotson’s argument.  ’There is no more certain foundation for it [transubstantiation] in Scripture than for our Saviour’s being substantially changed into all those things which are said of him, as that he is a rock, a vine, a door, and a hundred other things.’ Ib. p. 313.

[216] Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, except ye eat the flesh of the son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.  See St. John’s Gospel, chap. vi. 53, and following verses.  BOSWELL.

[217] See ante, p. 26.

[218] See ante, i. 140, note 5, and v. 50.

[219] Johnson, after saying that the inn was not so good as they expected, continues:—­’But Mr. Boswell desired me to observe that the innkeeper was an Englishman, and I then defended him as well as I could.’ Works, ix. 9.

[220] Johnson wrote to Mrs. Thrale on July 29, 1775 (Piozzi Letters, i. 292):—­’ I hope I shall quickly come to Streatham...and catch a little gaiety among you.’  On this Baretti noted in his copy:—­’That he never caught.  He thought and mused at Streatham as he did habitually everywhere, and seldom or never minded what was doing about him.’  On the margin of i. 315 Baretti has written:—­’Johnson mused as much on the road to Paris as he did in his garret in London as much at a French opera as in his room at Streatham.’

[221] A Biographical Sketch of Dr. Samuel Johnson, by Thomas Tyers, Esq.  See ante, iii. 308.

[222] This description of Dr. Johnson appears to have been borrowed from Tom Jones, bk. xi. ch. ii.  ’The other who, like a ghost, only wanted to be spoke to, readily answered, ’&c.  BOSWELL.

[223] Perhaps he gave the ‘shilling extraordinary’ because he ’found a church,’ as he says, ’clean to a degree unknown in any other part of Scotland.’ Works, ix. 9.

[224] See ante, iii. 22.

[225] See ante, May 9, 1784.  Yet Johnson says (Works, ix. 10):—­’The magnetism of Lord Monboddo’s conversation easily drew us out of our way.’