[68] The following observation in Mr. Boswell's _Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides_, may sufficiently account for that gentleman's being "now scarcely esteem'd a Scot" by many of his countrymen; "If he [Dr. Johnson] was particularly prejudiced against the Scots it was because they were more in his way; because he thought their success in England rather exceeded the due proportion of their real merit; and because he could not but see in them that nationality which, I believe, no liberal-minded Scotchman will deny." Mr. Boswell indeed is so free from national prejudices, that he might with equal propriety have been described as-- "Scarce by _South_ Britons now esteem'd a Scot." [69] When Dr. Johnson repeated to Mr. Boswell Goldsmith's beautiful eulogium on the English nation, his eyes filled with tears.--Boswell's _Tour_, p. 431.--See also the Dissertation on the Bravery of the English common Soldiers, at the end of the _Idler_. [70] See _Taxation no Tyranny_. [71] Though Dr. Johnson has called Hamden the _zealot of rebellion_, yet that distinguished patriot could not have expressed himself with more ardour in the cause of liberty, than Dr. Johnson does in the following passage in his Life of Swift: "In the succeeding reign [that of George I.] he delivered Ireland from plunder and _oppression_; and shewed that wit, confederated with _truth_, had such force as authority was unable to resist.--It was from the time when he first began to patronize the Irish, that they may date their riches, and prosperity. He taught them first to know their own interest, their weight and their strength, and gave them spirit to assert that _equality_ with their fellow-subjects to which they have been ever since making vigorous advances, and to claim those _rights_ which they have at last established." The truth indeed seems to be, that Dr. Johnson, though he had been bred in high-church principles, and always expressed himself in controversial argument like a Tory, possessed a high independent spirit, and appears to have been a friend to the rights of man. His definition of the word _Caitiff_, in his Dictionary, may throw some light on this part of his character. "Caitiff. [_cattivo_, Ital. a slave; whence it came to signify a bad man, with some implication of meanness; as _knave_ in English, and _fur_ in Latin; so _certainly does slavery destroy virtue_. Hemisu tes aretes apoainutai doulion emar. A slave and a scoundrel are signified by the same words in many languages.] A mean villain," &c. See also that animated passage in his _London_, beginning, "Here let those reign," &c. [72] It is observable that Dr. Johnson did not prefix a dedication to any one of his various works. THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES PUBLICATIONS IN PRINT 1948-1949 16. Henry Nevil Payne, _The Fatal Jealousie_ (1673).