Johnsonian Gleanings The Doctors Boyhood Appendices PDF Download

Excerpt from Johnsonian Gleanings, Vol. 3: The Doctor's Boyhood The present volume needs but a short introduction. In my Raadas of Blackwood H ill and Dr. Johnson's Ancestry, and in Part I of this series, I printed a great mass of original inform ation which bore, directly or indirectly, upon Johnson's boyhood. But it was given in what was, necessarily, a rather indigestible form, and its thorough application to a narrative of his early years would have been a labour almost hopeless to anyone except its collector. The first task I set myself, therefore, was to analyse and collate the various printed accounts of Johnson's boyhood, including that portion of his own invaluable Annals saved from the flames to add thereto every illustrative reference that could be found elsewhere in the biographies; and to incorporate my own published information with the result. The second task was, as far as possible, to fill in all the gaps and bridge all the chasms revealed in the narrative thus con structed. This has involved much fresh research, the results of which are, to a large extent, given in the form of footnotes. But the bulkier evidences have had to be relegated to a series of Appendices, lettered in advance for reference, which will be printed as Part IV. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.