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Latest Release: Chapter 1 : Life Of Johnson.Vol. 1.by Boswell.Edited by Birkbeck Hill.PREFACE.Fielding, it is said,
Life Of Johnson.Vol. 1.by Boswell.Edited by Birkbeck Hill.PREFACE.Fielding, it is said, drank confusion to the man who invented the fifth act of a play. He who has edited an extensive work, and has concluded his labours by the preparation of a copious ind
- 227 After all, I cannot help entertaining some doubt whether the words, _Difficile est proprie communia dicere_, may not have been thrown in by Horace to form a _separate_ article in a 'choice of difficulties' which a poet has to encounter, who choo
- 226 [187] In the year 1770, in _The False Alarm_, Johnson attacked Wilkes with more than 'some asperity.' 'The character of the man,' he wrote, 'I have no purpose to delineate. Lampoon itself would disdain to speak ill of him, of whom
- 225 [153] Mr. Langton is certainly meant. It is strange how often his mode of living was discussed by Johnson and Boswell. See _post_, Nov. 16, 1776, July 22, and Sept. 22, 1777, March 18, April 17, 18, and 20, May 12, and July 3, 1778.[154] Baretti made a br
- 224 "Ah!" said Johnson, "that may be true; for the limbs will quiver and move when the soul is gone."' Northcote's _Reynolds_, i. 152. Farmer was Master of Emanuel College, Cambridge (_ante_, i. 368). In a letter dated Oct. 3, 17
- 223 [82] Boswell, _post_, under March 30, 1783, says, 'Johnson discovered a love of little children upon all occasions.'[83] Johnson at a later period thought otherwise. _Post_, March 30, 1778.[84] Pope borrowed from the following lines:-- 'Whe
- 222 [43] According to Adam Smith this is true only of the Protestant countries. In Roman Catholic countries and England where benefices are rich, the church is continually draining the universities of all their ablest members. In Scotland and Protestant count
- 221 [8] See _post_, April, 28, 1783.[9] See _post_, March 22, 1783.[10] See _post_, March 18, 1784.[11] Newbery, the publisher, was the vendor of Dr. James's famous powder. It was known that on the doctor's death a chemist whom he had employed meant
- 220 'A Messieurs Le President et les autres Membres du Conseil de l'Academie Royale des Arts a Londres.'Messieurs, 'C'est avec la plus vive reconnoissance que J'accepte la charge de Secretaire pour la Correspondence etrangere de
- 219 On Oct. 17 he wrote:-- 'The summer has been foolishly lost, like many other of my summers and winters. I hardly saw a green field, but staid in town to work, without working much.' _Ante_, iii. 441.1784. Johnson's wish to go to Italy in the
- 218 'I wish you had staid longer in Spain, for no country is less known to the rest of Europe.' _Ante_, i. 365. He twice recommended Boswell to perambulate Spain. _Ante_, i. 410, 455.1763. 'Dr. Johnson flattered me (Boswell) with some hopes tha
- 217 Brighton, autumn; a short visit. Piozzi's _Anec_. p. 126, and _Piozzi Letters_, i. 1.1766. Streatham, summer and autumn; more than three months. Ante, ii.25, and _Pr. and Med_. p. 71.Oxford, autumn; a month. _Ante_, ii. 25.1767. Lichfield, summer and
- 216 While he was living the life of a lying scoundrel, he was, he says (p.192), 'happily restrained by Divine Grace,' so that 'all sense of remorse was not extinguished,' and there was no fall into 'downright infidelity.' At leng
- 215 'I rejoice to hear of your good state of health; I pray G.o.d to continue it long. I have often said, that I would willingly have ten years added to my life, to have ten taken from yours; I mean, that I would be ten years older to have you ten years
- 214 Such was the end of this miserable sedition, from which London was delivered by the magnanimity of the Sovereign himself. Whatever some may maintain, I am satisfied that there was no combination or plan, either domestic or foreign; but that the mischief s
- 213 'SAM. JOHNSON.''April 8, 1780.'Mrs. Thrale being now at Bath with her husband, the correspondence between Johnson and her was carried on briskly. I shall present my readers with one of her original letters to him at this time, which wi
- 212 'The Bishop treated me with a kindness which was very flattering. I told him, that you regretted you had seen so little of Chester.[1275] His Lords.h.i.+p bade me tell you, that he should be glad to shew you more of it. I am proud to find the friends
- 211 'Broughton Park, 'Sept. 21, 1779.'JOHNSON. 'Depend upon it, Sir, this is too strongly stated. Pope may have had from Bolingbroke the philosophick _stamina_ of his Essay; and admitting this to be true, Lord Bathurst did not intentionall
- 210 'SAM. JOHNSON.'My readers will not doubt that his solicitude about me was very flattering.'To JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ.'DEAR SIR, 'What can possibly have happened, that keeps us two such strangers to each other? I expected to have heard
- 209 On Sat.u.r.day, April 24, I dined with him at Mr. Beauclerk's, with Sir Joshua Reynolds, Mr. Jones, (afterwards Sir William,) Mr. Langton, Mr.Steevens, Mr. Paradise, and Dr. Higgins. I mentioned that Mr. Wilkes had attacked Garrick to me, as a man wh
- 208 'JAMES BOSWELL.'On the 23rd of February I wrote to him again, complaining of his silence, as I had heard he was ill, and had written to Mr. Thrale, for information concerning him; and I announced my intention of soon being again in London.'
- 207 'London, November 2, 1778.''TO THE REVEREND DR. EDWARDS[1097], OXFORD.'SIR, 'The bearer, DR. BURNEY, has had some account of a Welsh Ma.n.u.script in the Bodleian library, from which he hopes to gain some materials for his History
- 206 Mr. Langton has been pleased, at my request, to favour me with some particulars of Dr. Johnson's visit to Warley-camp, where this gentleman was at the time stationed as a Captain in the Lincolns.h.i.+re militia[1073].I shall give them in his own word
- 205 'Can sins of moment claim the rod Of everlasting fires?And that offend great Nature's G.o.d, Which Nature's self inspires[1027]?'and that Dr. Johnson observed, 'it had been borrowed from _Guarini_.'There are, indeed, in _Past
- 204 BOSWELL. 'Curst be the _spring_, the _water_.' JOHNSON. 'But let us consider what a sad thing it would be, if we were obliged to drink or do any thing else that may happen to be agreeable to the company where we are.' LANGTON. 'By
- 203 Johnson, however, had a n.o.ble ambition floating in his mind, and had, undoubtedly, often speculated on the possibility of his supereminent powers being rewarded in this great and liberal country by the highest honours of the state. Sir William Scott inf
- 202 Mrs. Knowles affected to complain that men had much more liberty allowed them than women. JOHNSON. 'Why, Madam, women have all the liberty they should wish to have. We have all the labour and the danger, and the women all the advantage. We go to sea,
- 201 'I have only to add, that my suggesting this occasion for the exercise of your candour and generosity, is altogether unknown to Dr. Percy, and proceeds from my good-will towards him, and my persuasion that you will be happy to do him an essential kin
- 200 JOHNSON. 'There is nothing marked in that. No, Sir, Garagantua is the best.' Notwithstanding this ease and good humour, when I, a little while afterwards, repeated his sarcasm on Kenrick[737], which was received with applause, he asked, '_W
- 199 I should have liked to hear you play on the violoncello. _That_ should have been _your_ instrument.' JOHNSON. 'Sir, I might as well have played on the violoncello as another; but I should have done nothing else. No, Sir; a man would never undert
- 198 His liberality, indeed, was at all periods of his life very remarkable.Mr. Howard, of Lichfield, at whose father's house Johnson had in his early years been kindly received, told me, that when he was a boy at the Charter-House, his father wrote to hi
- 197 Welch accordingly went abroad, accompanied by his daughter Anne, a young lady of uncommon talents and literature.'TO SAUNDERS WELCH, ESQ., AT THE ENGLISH COFFEE-HOUSE, ROME.'DEAR SIR, 'To have suffered one of my best and dearest friends to
- 196 'My dear friend, let me thank you once more for your visit; you did me great honour, and I hope met with nothing that displeased you. I staid long at Ashbourne, not much pleased, yet aukward at departing. I then went to Lichfield, where I found my fr
- 195 He praised Grainger's _Ode on Solitude_, in Dodsley's _Collection_, and repeated, with great energy, the exordium:-- 'O Solitude, romantick maid, Whether by nodding towers you tread; Or haunt the desart's trackless gloom, Or hover o�
- 194 I talked to him of Forster's _Voyage to the South Seas_, which pleased me; but I found he did not like it. 'Sir, (said he,) there is a great affectation of fine writing in it.' BOSWELL. 'But he carries you along with him.' JOHNSON
- 193 We dined with Dr. b.u.t.ter, whose lady is daughter of my cousin Sir John Douglas, whose grandson is now presumptive heir of the n.o.ble family of Queensberry. Johnson and he had a good deal of medical conversation.Johnson said, he had somewhere or other
- 192 Dr. Johnson! as I sought your knowledge at an early hour in life, would to heaven I had cultivated the love and acquaintance of so excellent a man!--I pray G.o.d most sincerely to bless you with the highest transports--the infelt satisfaction of _humane_
- 191 While we sat basking in the sun upon a seat here, I introduced a common subject of complaint, the very small salaries which many curates have, and I maintained, 'that no man should be invested with the character of a clergyman, unless he has a securi
- 190 [Informing him that my wife had continued to grow better, so that my alarming apprehensions were relieved: and that I hoped to disengage myself from the other embarra.s.sment which had occurred, and therefore requesting to know particularly when he intend
- 189 'Sir Allan Maclean has[377] carried that branch of his cause, of which we had good hopes: the President and one other Judge only were against him.I wish the House of Lords may do as well as the Court of Session has done. But Sir Allan has not the lan
- 188 'I suppose Miss Boswell reads her book, and young Alexander takes to his learning. Let me hear about them; for every thing that belongs to you, belongs in a more remote degree, and not, I hope, very remote, to, dear Sir, 'Yours affectionately, &
- 187 Early in this year came out, in two volumes quarto, the posthumous works of the learned Dr. Zachary Pearce, Bishop of Rochester; being _A Commentary, with Notes, on the four Evangelists and the Acts of the Apostles_, with other theological pieces. Johnson
- 186 'MR. BOSWELL TO DR. JOHNSON.'Edinburgh, April 4, 1777.[After informing him of the death of my little son David, and that I could not come to London this spring:--]'I think it hard that I should be a whole year without seeing you. May I pres
- 185 'SIR ALEXANDER d.i.c.k TO DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON.'Prestonfield, Feb. 17, 1777.'Sir, 'I had yesterday the honour of receiving your book of your _Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland_, which you was so good as to send me, by the hands
- 184 'Baretti went away from Thrale's in some whimsical fit of disgust, or ill-nature, without taking any leave[282]. It is well if he finds in any other place as good an habitation, and as many conveniencies. He has got five-and-twenty guineas by tr
- 183 'TO SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS.'SIR, 'A young man, whose name is Paterson, offers himself this evening to the Academy. He is the son of a man[259] for whom I have long had a kindness, and who is now abroad in distress. I shall be glad that you wil
- 182 Sir William Forbes's observation is very just. The anecdote now related proves, in the strongest manner, the reverence and awe with which Johnson was regarded, by some of the most eminent men of his time, in various departments, and even by such of t
- 181 '"'Off with his head! So much for Aylesbury[217].'"'I was then member for Aylesbury.'Dr. Johnson and Mr. Wilkes talked of the contested pa.s.sage in Horace's _Art of Poetry_[218], '_Difficile est proprie commun
- 180 I asked him whether he would advise me to read the Bible with a commentary, and what commentaries he would recommend. JOHNSON. 'To be sure, Sir, I would have you read the Bible with a commentary; and I would recommend Lowth and Patrick on the Old Tes
- 179 Sir Joshua mentioned Mr. c.u.mberland's _Odes_,[134] which were just published. JOHNSON. 'Why, Sir, they would have been thought as good as Odes commonly are, if c.u.mberland had not put his name to them; but a name immediately draws censure, un
- 178 The Life Of Johnson.Volume 3.by Boswell.THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.Having left Ashbourne in the evening, we stopped to change horses at Derby, and availed ourselves of a moment to enjoy the conversation of my countryman, Dr. b.u.t.ter, then physicia
- 177 [1377] He wrote:--'Mr. Boswell is with me, but I will take care that he shall hinder no business, nor shall he know more than you would have him.' Mr. Morison's _Collection of Autographs_, vol. ii.[1378] 'March 23, 1776. Master Thrale,
- 176 [1340] In _Poems_ by Christopher Smart, ed. 1752, p. 100. One line may serve as a sample of the whole poem, Writing of 'Bacchus, G.o.d of hops,'the poet says:-- ''Tis he shall gen'rate the buxom beer.'[1341] See Boswell'
- 175 [1305] See _ante_, pp. 279, 283.[1306] 'I have seen,' said Mr. Donne to Sir R. Drewry, 'a dreadful vision since I saw you. I have seen my dear wife pa.s.s twice by me, through this room, with her hair hanging about her shoulders, and a dead
- 174 [1264] A similar bill had been thrown out sixteen years earlier by 194 to 84. 'A Bill for a Militia in Scotland was not successful; nor could the disaffected there obtain this mode of having their arms restored.Pitt had acquiesced; but the young Whig
- 173 169. Yet, in his _Life of Barretier_ (_Works_, vi. 380), he says:--'The first languages which he learnt were the French, German, and Latin, which he was taught, not in the common way, by a mult.i.tude of definitions, rules, and exceptions, which fati
- 172 [1184] Lewis XVI.[1185] The King's sister, who was guillotined in the Reign of Terror.[1186] See p. 391. BOSWELL.[1187] 'When at Versailles, the people showed us the Theatre. As we stood on the stage looking at some machinery for playhouse purpo
- 171 220. 'June 11, 1775. You never told me, and I omitted to inquire, how you were entertained by Boswell's _Journal_. _One would think the man had been hired to be a spy upon me_. He was very diligent, and caught opportunities of writing from time
- 170 [1101] This song is the twelfth air in act i.[1102] 'In several parts of tragedy,' writes Tom Davies, 'Walker's look, deportment, and action gave a _distinguished glare to tyrannic rage_.'Davies's _Garrick_, i. 24.[1103] Pope
- 169 [1070] The following pa.s.sages shew that the thought, or something like it, was not new to Johnson:--'Bruyere declares that we are come into the world too late to produce anything new, that nature and life are preoccupied, and that description and s
- 168 [1034] 'Of Gibbon, Mackintosh neatly remarked that he might have been cut out of a corner of Burke's mind, without his missing it.' _Life of Mackintosh_, i. 92. It is worthy of notice that Gibbon scarcely mentions Johnson in his writings. M
- 167 'To his first state let him return with speed, Who sees how far the joys he left exceed His present choice.' FRANCIS.Malone says that 'Walpole, after he ceased to be minister, endeavoured to amuse his mind with reading. But one day when Mr.
- 166 _Works_, viii. 487. Goldsmith, in his _Life of Parnell_ (_Misc. Works_, iv. 25), thus seems to sneer at _The Elegy_:--'The _Night Piece_ on death deserves every praise, and, I should suppose, with very little amendment, might be made to surpa.s.s all
- 165 [933] He had written to Temple six days earlier:--'Second sight pleases my superst.i.tion which, you know, is not small, and being not of the gloomy but the grand species, is an enjoyment; and I go further than Mr.Johnson, for the facts which I heard
- 164 [891] See _Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides_, 3rd ed. p. 520 [p. 431].BOSWELL.[892] For the letter, see the end of Boswell's _Hebrides_.[893] _Fossilist_ is not in Johnson's _Dictionary_.[894] 'Rasay has little that can detain a traveller,
- 163 [858] See Boswell's _Hebrides_, Aug. 23.[859] In the Court of Session of Scotland an action is first tried by one of the Judges, who is called the Lord Ordinary; and if either party is dissatisfied, he may appeal to the whole Court, consisting of fif
- 162 [817] These books Dr. Johnson presented to the Bodleian Library, BOSWELL.[818] On the cover enclosing them, Dr. Johnson wrote, 'If my delay has given any reason for supposing that I have not a very deep sense of the honour done me by asking my judgem
- 161 [773] Mrs. Piozzi's _Anecdotes of Johnson_, p. 131. BOSWELL. Mrs. Piozzi (_Anec_. p. 129) describes her mother and Johnson as 'excellent, far beyond the excellence of any other man and woman I ever yet saw. As her conduct extorted his truest est
- 160 [732] Boswell calls Elwal Johnson's countryman, because they both came from the same county. See _ante_, ii.[733] Baretti, in a MS. note on _Piozzi Letters_, i. 219, says:--'Johnson would have made an excellent Spanish inquisitor. To his shame b
- 159 [696] See _ante_, ii. 210.[697] See _post_, Oct. 10, 1779.[698] 'Vertot, ne en Normandie en 1655. Historien agreable et elegant.Mort en 1735.' Voltaire, _Siecle de Louis XIV_.[699] Even Hume had no higher notion of what was required in a writer
- 158 _Ib_ i, 459.[668]'Then I alone the conquest prize, When I insult a rival's eyes: If there's, &c.'Act iii, sc. 12.[669]'But how did he return, this haughty brave, Who whipt the winds, and made the sea his slave?(Though Neptune took
- 157 [629] See _ante_, i. 252.[630] 'By inscribing this slight performance to you, I do not mean so much to compliment you as myself. It may do me some honour to inform the publick, that I have lived many years in intimacy with you. It may serve the inter
- 156 [595] Now Doctor White, and Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Pennsylvania. During his first visit to England in 1771, as a candidate for holy orders, he was several times in company with Dr. Johnson, who expressed a wish to see the edition of his _Ra.s.s
- 155 After the first fortnight he said to me, "Young man, it would be cheating you to take your money; for you never can learn what I am trying to teach you." I was exceedingly mortified, and cried; for, being a Prime Minister's son, I had firml
- 154 [523] 185,000. 2 _Kings_, xix. 35.[524] Lord Chatham wrote on Oct. 12, 1766, to Lord Shelburne that he 'had extremely at heart to obtain this post for Lord Cardross, a young n.o.bleman of great talents, learning, and accomplishments, and son of the E
- 153 [478] See _post_, April 17, 1778, and May 19, 1784.[479] See _ante_, i. 240, and ii. 105.[480] _Revelations_, xiv. 2.[481] Johnson, in _The Rambler_, No. 78, describes man's death as 'a change not only of the place, but the manner of his being;
- 152 [443] See _ante_, ii. 105.[444] The pet.i.tion was presented on Feb. 6 of this year. By a majority thrown of 217 to 71 leave was refused for it to be brought up. _Parl.Hist_. xvii. 245-297. Gibbon, in a letter dated Feb. 8, 1772 (_Misc.Works_, ii. 74), co
- 151 [411] See _post_, July 27, 1778.[412] Hawkins (_Life_, p. 513) says that Mr. Thrale made the same attempt. 'He had two meetings with the ministry, who at first seemed inclined to find Johnson a seat.' 'Lord Stowell told me,' says Mr.Cr
- 150 [378] See _ante_, ii. 76.[379] 'It is dangerous for a man and woman to suspend their fate upon each other at a time when opinions are fixed, and habits are established; when friends.h.i.+ps have been contracted on both sides; when life has been plann
- 149 [346] 'He loved the poor,' says Mrs. Piozzi (_Anec_. p. 84), 'as I never yet saw any one else do, with an earnest desire to make them happy."What signifies," says some one, "giving half-pence to common beggars?they only lay i
- 148 [310] See _post_, June 28, 1777, note.[311] Laceration was properly a term of surgery; hence the italics. See _post_, Jan. 20, 1780.[312] See _post_, April 15, 1778.[313] See Boswell's _Hebrides_, Sept. 12, 1773.[314] He bids us pray 'For faith
- 147 [271] Bouhours, 1628-1702. Voltaire, writing of Bouhours' _Maniere de bien penser sur les ouvrages d'esprit_, says that he teaches young people 'a eviter l'enflure, l'obscurite, le recherche, et le faux.'_Ib_, p. 54. Johnson,
- 146 [237] Mr. Stewart, who in 1768 was sent on a secret mission to Paoli, in his interesting report says:--'Religion seems to sit easy upon Paoli, and notwithstanding what his historian Boswell relates, I take him to be very free in his notions that way.
- 145 Honours to one in my situation are something like ruffles to one that wants a s.h.i.+rt.' Prior's _Goldsmith_, ii. 221. 'Wicked Will Whiston,'&c., comes from Swift's _Ode for Music, On the Longitude_ (Swift's _Works_, ed. 180
- 144 182.[167] _An account of the Manners and Customs of Italy_, by Joseph Baretti, London, 1768. The book would be still more entertaining were it not written as a reply to Sharp's _Letters on Italy_. _Post_ under April 29, 1776.[168] Mrs. Piozzi wrote o
- 143 85). 'The author is a strange being, and has a rage of knowing everybody that ever was talked of. He forced himself upon me at Paris in spite of my teeth and my doors.' To this Gray replied:--'Mr. Boswell's book has pleased and moved m
- 142 [95] The particulars of this conversation I have been at great pains to collect with the utmost authenticity from Dr. Johnson's own detail to myself; from Mr. Langton who was present when he gave an account of it to Dr. Joseph Warton, and several oth
- 141 [60] The pa.s.sage omitted alluded to a private transaction. BOSWELL.[61] The censure of my Latin relates to the Dedication, which was as follows: VIRO n.o.bILISSIMO, ORNATISSIMO, JOANNI, VICECOMITI MOUNTSTUART, ATAVIS EDITO REGIBUS EXCELSAE FAMILLAE DE B
- 140 [22] 'The inference upon the whole is, that it is not from the value or worth of the object which any person pursues that we can determine his enjoyment; but merely from the pa.s.sion with which he pursues it, and the success which he meets with in h
- 139 'May 4,--66. I have read since the noon of Easter day the Gospels of St.Matthew and St. Mark in Greek.'I have read Xenophon's Cyropaidia.'BODLEIAN LIBRARY. SELECT AUTOGRAPHS. (MONTAGU.) APPENDIX B.(_Page_ 312.) Johnson's sentiment
- 138 'Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive.''Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen[1385]. It is a.s.suming a superiority, and it is particularly wrong to question a man con
- 137 He mentioned to me the singular history of an ingenious acquaintance.'He had practised physick in various situations with no great emolument.A West-India gentleman, whom he delighted by his conversation, gave him a bond for a handsome annuity during
- 136 Finding him still persevering in his abstinence from wine, I ventured to speak to him of it.--JOHNSON. 'Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess in it, and therefore, af
- 135 'Your most affectionate humble servant, 'SAM. JOHNSON.''March 5, 1776.'To THE SAME.'DEAR SIR, 'Very early in April we leave England, and in the beginning of the next week I shall leave London for a short time; of this I
- 134 'I am, Sir, 'Your affectionate servant, 'SAM. JOHNSON.'Feb. 3, 1773'I had followed his recommendation and consulted Lord Hailes, who upon this subject had a firm opinion contrary to mine. His Lords.h.i.+p obligingly took the troub
- 133 'I have at last sent you all Lord Hailes's papers. While I was in France, I looked very often into Henault[1236]; but Lord Hailes, in my opinion, leaves him far and far behind. Why I did not dispatch so short a perusal sooner, when I look back,
- 132 'Nov. 5. Sunday. We saw the cathedral.--It is very beautiful, with chapels on each side. The choir splendid. The bal.u.s.trade in one part bra.s.s.--The Neff[1204] very high and grand.--The altar silver as far as it is seen.--The vestments very splen
- 131 'Oct. 17, Tuesday. At the Palais Marchand I bought A snuff-box[1175], 24 L.------------- 6 Table book 15 Scissars 3 p [pair] 18 ---- 63--2 12 6[1176]'We heard the lawyers plead.--N. As many killed at Paris as there are days in the year. _Chambre
- 130 'I have been remarkably healthy all the journey, and hope you and your family have known only that trouble and danger which has so happily terminated. Among all the congratulations that you may receive, I hope you believe none more warm or sincere, t
- 129 'Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head to think that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as
- 128 'All verbal injury must comprise in it either some false position, or some unnecessary declaration of defamatory truth. That in calling him Doctor, a false appellation was given him, he himself will not pretend, who at the same time that he complains