Letter From James Boswell To Lord Chatham

Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230266145
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book Letters of James Boswell to the Rev. W. J. Temple written by James Boswell and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter iv i764-1767 Studies at Utrecht--Letter to Sir Andrew Mitchell--BoswelPs "spirited tour "--Visits Voltaire and Rousseau--Corsica--Pascal Paoli--Corsican History and Journal--Walpole's and Gray's criticism--Dedication of the book--Visit to Mr. Pitt--Correspondence with Temple resumed--Boswell on the clerical character and bachelorship--Marriage--Progress in the law--Contemplates matrimony--Zelide--A Scotch lass--Writes to Lord Chatham--The Douglas cause--Professional business--Miss Blair--Rough notes for a conversation--Temple marries. A Winter was devoted by Boswell to Utrecht; how much to study, and how much to various dissipations, need not form matter of deep speculation. He then proceeded on his travels, visiting Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, Paris, and returned early in 1766 to London. Two letters of Boswell, written during this foreign tour to Sir Andrew Mitchell, have been published, and will be found in the interesting Memoir of that Minister. As the editor of the work mentioned below remarks, these letters are very characteristic of Boswell;t and he adds, that "Boswell s father, the Lord Auchinleck, so well known to all readers of the most entertaining biography on record, seems to have been Memoirs and Papers of Sir Andrew Mitchell, K.B., Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the Court of Great Britain to the Court of Prussia from 1756 to 1771, edited by Andrew Bisset, Esq., vol. ii. p. 381. + The reader will moreover perceive that the second letter to Sir Andrew bears upon the matter of the Temple family, for whom Boswell interests himself. pretty much of the opinion of Lord Burleigh on the subject or foreign travel, who, in his letter of advice to his son, says, 'Suffer not thy sons to pass...