Life of Johnson
TJ E had been in company with Omai, ■ Li a native of otie of the South Sea Islands, after he had been some time in this country. He was struck with the elegance of his behaviour, and accounted for it thus: “Sir, he had passed his time, while in England, only in the best company; so that all that he had acquired of our manners was genteel. As a proof of this, Sir, Lord Mulgrave and he dined one day at Streatham; they sat with their backs to the light fronting me, so that I could not see distinctly; and there was so little of the savage in Oxnai, that I was afraid to speak to either, lest I should mistake one for the other. A FTER dinner Dr Johnson wrote a letter A to Mrs Thrale on the death of her son. I said it would be very distressing to Thrale, but she would soon forget it, as she had so many things to think of. Johnson. “No, Sir, Thrale will forget it first. She has many things that she may think of. He has many things that he must trunk of.”
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20366, 25 July 1934, Page 6
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196Life of Johnson Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20366, 25 July 1934, Page 6
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