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His father sent him to Glasgow wherehe continued to be idle. He then came to London where he has been veryidle; and now he is going to Utrecht where he will be as idle as ever. 'I asked him privately how he could expose me {76} so. 'Pooh, Pooh!'said he, 'they know nothing about you and will think of it no more. '"When he was not engaged in these alarums and excursions or in reprovingBoswell for giving the coachman a shilling instead of the customarysixpence, he was occupied in reading Pomponius... Mela _De Situ Orbis_. How complete the picture is and how vivid! It once more givesBoswell's method in miniature. He seems to have stayed at Utrecht about a year, afterwards travellingin Germany, where he visited Wittenberg, and sat down to write toJohnson in the church where the Reformation was first preached, withhis paper resting on the tomb of Melanchthon. It is noticeable that, though he had only known Johnson a year, he already hoped to be hisbiographer. "At this tomb, then, my ever dear and respected friend, Ivow to thee an eternal attachment.
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