No More Learning

[Signed T. Johnson's sole authorship of Nos. 34, 41, 53, 62—which
are letters signed Misagyrus or Misargyrus--is doubtful: see Boswell, ed.
Hill, G. B. , vol. 1, p. 254. According to Hawkins, Johnson did not himself
write' No. 81 (on ‘Admirable Crichton'), but 'dictated' it to Hawkes
worth: see Life, 1787, pp. 294, 309. ]
基基
​The Universal Visiter, and Memorialist. For the Year 1756.
Further thoughts on Agriculture. (March. )
Latin verses beginning: Nequicquam Danaen includit ahenea turris. (March. )
Reflections on the present State of Literature. (April. )
A Dissertation on the Epitaphs written by Pope. (May. )
[All signed **(i. e. S. J. ); other contributions signed are clearly not
his. )
The Literary Magazine: or, Universal Review.
Articles :
Preliminary Address. (May 1756. )
An Introduction to the Political State of Great Britain. (May. )
Observations added to 'An authentic Account of the present State of Lisbon. '
(May. )
Observations on the Militia Bill. (June. )
Observations on his Britannick Majesty's Treaties with her Imperial Majesty
of all the Russias and the Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel. (July. )
Observations on the present State of Affairs. (August. )
Memoirs of the King of Prussia. (November, December, January 1857. )
Reviews:
Birch's History of the Royal Society. (May 1756. )
Murphy's Gray's Inn Journal. (May. )
Warton's Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope. (May. )
Hampton's Polybius. (May. )
Blackwell's Memoirs of the Court of Augustus. (May. )
Russell's Natural History of Aleppo. (June. )
Newton's Letters to Bentley containing arguments in proof of a Deity. (June. )
Borlase's Observations on the Islands of Scilly. (June. )
Home's Experiments on Bleaching. (July. )
Browne's Christian Morals. (July. )
Hales 'on distilling sea-water, the great benefit of ventilators, and curing an
ill-taste in milk. ' (July. )
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Keith's Catalogue of the Bishops of Scotland. (August. )
Browne's History of Jamaica. (August. )
Parkin's Account of the Invasion under William Duke of Normandy.
(August. )
Philosophical Transactions, vol. xlix. (August. )
Mrs Lennox's translation of Sully's Memoirs. (October. )
Miscellanies by Elizabeth Harrison. (October. )
Evans's Map and Account of the Middle Colonies in America. (October. )
Letter on the case of Admiral Byng. (October. )
Appeal to the people concerning Admiral Byng. (October. )
Hanway's Eight Days Journey. . . to which is added an essay on Tea.
(November, May 1757. )
The Cadet. A military treatise. (November. )
Further Particulars relating to the case of Admiral Byng. (November. )
The Conduct of the ministry impartially examined. (November. )
A Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil. (May 1757, June, July. )
A Reply to a Paper in the Gazetteer of May 26,1757 [by Hanway. ] (June 1757. )
The London Chronicle.
Introduction. (1 January 1757. )
Character of the Rev. Mr Zachariah Mudge. (2 May 1769. )
The Universal Chronicle, or Weekly Gazette.
The Idler, from 15 April 1758 to 5 April 1760.
Advertisement against reprinting the Idler without leave. (5 January 1759. )
The Gazetteer.
Three letters on the plans for Black-Friars bridge. (1,8, 15 December 1759. )
The Critical Review.
Review of Graham's Telemachus, a Mask. (April 1763. )
Review of Grainger's Sugar-Cane. (October 1764. )
Review of Goldsmith's Traveller. (December. )
The London Magazine.
Elegy on the Death of Mr Levet. (September 1783. )
['Incorrect copies of this effusion of the most friendly regard have
been distributed; that which you will now receive, is genuine,' p. 229. ]
The Morning Chronicle.
Communication showing that a passage in The Rambler, No. 85, did not favour
suicide. (May 29, 1782. )
(See Gentleman's Magazine, February 1786, pp. 93-5. )
D. Contributions to Books: Assistance to other Writers
A Miscellany of Poems By several Hands. Publish'd by J. Husbands, A. M. ,
Fellow of Pembroke-College, Oxon. Oxford, 1731.
Messia (pp. 111-117).
[‘The Translation of Mr Pope's Messiah was deliver'd to his Tutor
as a College Exercise, by Mr Johnson, a Commoner of Pembroke-College
in Oxford, and 'tis hoped will be no Discredit to the excellent Original. '
Preface. ]
The Works of Dr Thomas Sydenham, newly made English from the original
Latin. By John Swan, M. D. 1742.
The prefatory Life of Sydenham, printed also in The Gentleman's
Magazine.
A Medicinal Dictionary. By Robert James, M. D. 3 vols. 1743-5.
Dedication to Dr Mead.
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