Macaulay's England, ed. 1874, v. 81. See ante, ii. 321, for Johnson's estimate of the Nonjurors, and i. 429 for his Jacobitism.

I never would be in the least acquainted with Johnson; or, as Boswell calls it, I had not a just value for him; which the biographer imputes to my resentment for the Doctor's putting bad arguments (purposely out of Jacobitism) into the speeches which he wrote fifty years ago for my father in the Gentleman's Magazine; which I did not read then, or ever knew Johnson wrote till Johnson died.'

But for his suspected Jacobitism, he would probably have received the mitre.

There he enters Parliament and is about to contract a fortunate marriage when he incautiously defends the Chevalier in conversation, fights a duel, and, although his antagonist is only wounded, he finds his reputation blighted by the stigma of Jacobitism.

In truth, his Jacobitism was by this time, whatever it had once been, nothing more than a humorous crotchet, giving opportunity for the expression of Tory prejudice.

In spite of his semi-humorous Jacobitism, there was probably not a more loyal subject in his majesty's dominions.

Twenty years after the Battle of Culloden, Jacobitism was a dream; fifty years after, it was a memory; a century after, it was an antiquarian study.

They were "the patriots that saved Briton," says Horace Walpole, in referring to their anti-Jacobitism, and yet the most of them are forgotten.

This pursuit of Jacobitism was varied by the study of lawa study "sometimes relieved with a temporary application to music and poetry"and when the disconsolate Arthur had lost his father, and thereby gained 800 pounds a year, he drowned his sorrows by an almost exclusive devotion to "society and pleasantry."

194-6, 209-211; Jacobitism, i. 430; levee, attends, ii. 118; marriage, i. 96; pension, saying about, i. 250; portrait, inscription on, iv. 180; and the two dogs, ii. 299; v. 329; use of orange peel, ii. 330; visits him at Windsor, i. 250; Johnson's Court, veneration for, ii. 229; laboratory, his, ii. 378, n. 1; library, his, ii. 378, n. 1; sold, iii. 420, n. 4; iv.

JACOB, Giles, v. 419, n. 2. JACOBITES, identified with Tories, i. 429, n. 4. JACOBITISM.

1, n. 2; Jacobitism, i. 430; letters to him: see under JOHNSON, letters; levee, attends, ii. 118; loan to him, ii. 136, n. 2; iv.

LANGTON, old Mr. (Bennet Langton's father), canal, his, iii. 47; exuberant talker, an, ii. 247; freedom from affectation, iv. 27; Johnson's Jacobitism, believes in, i. 430; in his being a Papist, i. 476; offers a living to, i. 320; picture, would not sit for his, iv.

The Tories, long deprived of power, and discredited by the taint or suspicion of Jacobitism, counted for nothing.

Being a man of a gay disposition, he insinuated himself into the favour of his grace the duke of Wharton, and being, like him, destitute of prudence, he joined with that volatile great man in writing a paper called the Inquisitor, which breathed so much the spirit of Jacobitism, that the publisher thought proper to sacrifice his profit to his safety, and discontinue it.

[Footnote 1: Atterbury (Pope's "mitred Rochester") was Bishop of Rochester in the reigns of Anne and George I. He was so violent in his Jacobitism, that on the death of Queen Anne he offered to head a procession to proclaim James III.

[Footnote 1: This refers to the Jacobitism of the time, particularly among those who were opposed to the Union.

It was not enough that Burnet should accuse his political opponents of sympathy with the French, Jacobitism, and Popery, but he must needs flaunt his vanity in issuing, in advance, for purposes of advertisement, the introduction to a work which was to come later.

Skinner, John, Jacobitism of.