said, I believed it was owing to Churchill’s attack upon him, He mouths a sentence, as curs mouth a bone. JOHNSON. “I believe so too, Sir. But what a man is he, who is to be driven from the stage by a line? Another line would have driven him from his shop.” I told him, that I was engaged as Counsel at the bar of the House of Commons to oppose a road-bill in the county of Stirling, and asked him what mode he would advise me to follow in addressing such an audience. JOHNSON. “Why, Sir, you must provide
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