"To entertain a visionary notion that one sees a distant or future event, may be called superstition; but the correspondence of the fact or event with such an impression on the fancy, though certainly very wonderful, if proved, has no more connection with superstition, than magnetism or electricity."
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
At least 5 entries in ESTC (1785, 1786, 1791).<br>
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See <u>The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. By James Boswell, Esq. Containing Some Poetical Pieces by Dr. Johnson, relative to the Tour, and never before published; A Series of his Conversation, Literary Anecdotes, and Opinions of Men and Books: With an Authentick Account of The Distresses and Escape of the Grandson of King James II. in the Year 1746.</u> (London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, 1785). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3302152684&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from Johnson, Samuel and James Boswell. <u>A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides</u>, ed. Peter Levi. (New York: Penguin Books, 1984).