[945] See _ante_, ii. 73, 228, 248; iii. 49.
[946]
'--quae mollissima fandi Tempora.'
'--time wherein the word May softliest be said.'
MORRIS. Virgil, _Aeneids_, iv. 293.
[947] See _ante_, i. 71.
[948] See _ante_, i. 203, note 6.
[949] Boswell began to eat dinners in the Inner Temple so early as 1775.
_Ante_, ii. 377, note 1. He was not called till Hilary Term, 1786.
Rogers's _Boswelliana_, p. 143.
[950] Mr. (afterwards Sir) William Jones wrote two years earlier
(_Life_, p. 268):--'Whether it be a wise part to live uncomfortably in
order to die wealthy, is another question; but this I know by
experience, and have heard old practitioners make the same observation,
that a lawyer who is in earnest must be chained to his chambers and the
bar for ten or twelve years together.'
[951] Johnson's _Prologue at the opening of Drury Lane Theatre. Works,
_ i. 23.
[952] According to Mr. Seward, who published this account in his
_Anecdotes,_ ii. 83, it was Mr. Langton's great-grandfather who drew
it up.
[953] 'My Lord said that his rule for his, health was to be temperate
and keep himself warm.
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