Life of Johnson.
£)R JOHN CAMPBELL, the celebrated political and biographical writer, being mentioned, Johnson said: “Campbell is a man of much knowledge, and has a good share of imagination. . . . Campbell is not always rigidly careful of truth in his conversation; but I do not believe there is any thing of this carelessness in his book c . Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years: but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shews that he has good principles. I used to go pretty often to Campbell’s on a Sunday evening till I began to consider that the shoals of Scotchmen -who flocked about him might probably say, when any thing of mine was well done, 4 Ay, ay, he has learnt this of Camwell! ’ ”
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 935, 4 December 1933, Page 8
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145Life of Johnson. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 935, 4 December 1933, Page 8
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