Note 8: — Chapter III

Boswell, as we have seen, had already at the age of twenty-seven made a bid for renown. He was anxious to shine in more lights than one. It was not mere social success or literary fame that he wanted: he had an ardent desire to be successful in his profession. The sphere of employment which had been chosen for him by his father with his own sanction was the Scotch Bar, to which he was formally 'called' in 1766.8 His work seems to have engrossed at once a great AT THE BAR deal of his time. He writes on March 4th, 1767, to Temple: