[Footnote 1: From Boswell's "Life of Johnson."]
[Footnote 2: The author of the "Lectures on Rhetoric," who was born in
1718 and died in 1800.]
[Footnote 3: From Boswell's "Life of Johnson."]
[Footnote 4: From Boswell's "Life of Johnson." Wilkes was the famous
publicist and political agitator who was expelled from Parliament,
imprisoned and outlawed, but afterward elected Lord Mayor of London
and allowed to sit in Parliament many years.]
[Footnote 5: From Boswell's "Life of Johnson." Johnson was married in
1734, when his age was twenty-five.]