Thises, not! 4/ 25/04 THE WORK S OF Samuel Johnson, LL.D. IN ELEVEN VOLUMES. PUBLIC VOL III. LONDON: Printed for J. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Sons, L. Davis, B. White and Son, T. Longman, B. Law, J. Dodfley, H. Baldwin, J. Robfon, J. Johnson, C. Dilly, T. Vernor, W. Nicoll, G. G. J. and J. Robinson, T. Cadell, T. Carnan, J. Nichols, J. Bew, R. Baldwin, N. Conant, P. Elmsly, W. Goldsmith, J. Knox, R. Faulder, Leigh & Sotheby, G. Nicol, J. Murray, A. Strahan, W. Lowndes, T. Evans, W. Bent, S. Hayes, G. and T. Wilkie, T. and J. Egerton, W. Fox, P. M'Queen, D. Ogilvie, B. Collins, E. Newbery, and R. Jamefon. M DCC LXXXVII. W ILLIAM KİNG was born in London in 1663; the fon of Ezekiel King, a gentleman: He was allied to the family of Cla fendon. From Westminster school; where he was a scholar on the foundation under the care of Dr. Busby, he was at eighteen elected to Chrift-church, in 1681; where hẻ is faid to have profecuted his ftudies with fo much intenseness and activity, that, before he was eight years ftanding, he had read over, and made remarks upon, twenty-two thoufand odd hundred books and manufcripts: The books were certainly not very long, the manuscripts not very difficult, nor the remarks very large; for the calculator will find that he difpätched feven a day, for every day of his eight years, with a femnant that more than fatisfies moft other ftudents. He took his degree in the most expenfive manner, as a VOL III. grand |