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Excerpt from A Life of John Taylor, LL. D., Of Ashburne, Rector of Bosworth, Prebendary of Westminster, and Friend of Dr. Samuel Johnson: Together With an Account of the Taylors and Websters of Ashburne, With Pedigrees and Copious Genealogical Notes
Of making many books there is no end. The corollary, that it is natural to make books, seems obvious. Nevertheless a few words are required, in order to explain the reasons which have impelled the writer of this biographical sketch of Dr. Taylor to indite and issue it in its present form.
In early youth some time before he read Thackeray's memorable passage in the Four George: extolling the greatness of Dr. Johnson as humanist and scholar and forthwith determined to enroll himself among Johnson's disciples he had been made acquainted with the personality, and in some measure, the character of him who has always been known as Johnson's Friend.
Years passed and the writer found himself immersed in genealogy, at first as a source of recreation and afterwards as a more or less serious pursuit.
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