Always tell this, when you hear of people going abroad to
relations, upon a notion of being well received. In the case which
you mention, it is probable the clergyman spends all he gets, and the
physician does not know how much he is to get.'
We this day dined at Sir Joshua Reynolds's, with General Paoli, Lord
Eliot, (formerly Mr. Eliot, of Port Eliot,) Dr. Beattie, and some
other company. Talking of Lord Chesterfield;--JOHNSON. 'His manner
was exquisitely elegant, and he had more knowledge than I expected.'
BOSWELL. 'Did you find, Sir, his conversation to be of a superiour
style?' JOHNSON. 'Sir, in the conversation which I had with him I
had the best right to superiority, for it was upon philology and
literature.' Lord Eliot, who had travelled at the same time with Mr.
Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield's natural son, justly observed, that it was
strange that a man who shewed he had so much affection for his son as
Lord Chesterfield did, by writing so many long and anxious letters to
him, almost all of them when he was Secretary of State, which certainly
was a proof of great goodness of disposition, should endeavour to make
his son a rascal.
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