THE

WORKS

OF

SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.

A NEW EDITION

IN TWELVE VOLUMES.

WITH

AN ESSAY ON HIS LIFE AND GENIUS,

By ARTHUR MURPHY, ESQ.

VOLUME THE TWELFTH.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON; G, AND W. NICOL; T. EGERTON ;

LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN; T. CADELL ; J. NUNN ;
J. CUTHELL; J. AND W. T. CLARKE; J. BOOKER : J. CARPENTER; JEF-
FERY AND SON; J. AND A. ARCH; J. BOOTH; J RICHARDSON; HATCHARD
AND SON ; W. GINGER; R. H. EVANS ; J. MAWMAN ; R. SCHOLEY ; BALD-
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J. ROBINSON; R. SAUNDERS; HARDING, MAVOR, AND LEPARD; G. AND W.
B. WHITTAKER; LLOYD AND SON ; J. BOHN; T. TEGG; T. WILKIE; OGLE
AND CO.; SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL; KINGSBURY, PARBURY, AND ALLEN ;
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AND BRADFUTE; AND J. FAIRBAIRN, AT EDINBURGH.

1823.

LONDON : PRINTED BY S. AND R. BENTLEY, DORSET STREET.

CONTENTS

OF

THE TWELFTH VOLUME..

Page POLITICAL TRACTS. * Marmor Norfolciense: or an Essay on an ancient

Prophetical Inscription in Monkish Rhyme lately discovered near Lynn

3 Observations on the State of Affairs in 1756

34 An Introduction to the Political State of Great-Britain 47 *Observations on the Treaty between his Britannic

Majesty and his Imperial Majesty of all the Rus-
sias, &c. &c.

71 Introduction to the Proceedings of the Committee appointed to

the Contributions for clothing French Prisoners of War

78 On the Bravery of the English common Soldiers 81 The False Alarm, 1770

87 Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands, 1771

118 The Patriot : addressed to the Electors of Great Britain, 1774

164 Taxation no Tyranny : an Answer to the Resolutions

manage the

.

.

ZVEY TO THE WESTERN ISLANDS OF
SCOTLUND.

Page
turew's

231

Drohick

236

Virt

239

.

241

Natty's Cave The Buiter of Buchan

247

Banat

250

252

Pons (wider. Fort George

255

ut relc

257

Tough Vine

260

265

Find us

266

AN

268

Gills

276

The tighlands

277

Gilures

284

Sir Armide

285

('urtatachan in Sky

290

Rusy

297

Dunvegan

308

Ulinish

314

Talisker in Sky

319

Ostig in Sky

322

('ol

377

380

Grissipol in Col

Castle of Col

382

Mull

399

Ulva

405

Inch Kenneth

407

437

*SERMONS

461

INDEX

POLITICAL TRACTS.

VOL. XII.

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