204/204 'At the altar,' say Dr.Johnson. 'I recommended my th ph.' 'These letters,' says the editor, (which Dr.Strahan seems not to have understood,) probably mean _departed friends._' Johnson was not a first-rate Greek scholar; but he knew more Greek than most boys when they leave school; and no schoolboy could venture to use the word thuetoi in the sense which Mr.Croker ascribes to it without imminent danger of a flogging."-- Macaulay's Review of Croker's Boswell.] Ever yours T.B.MACAULAY.. |