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 public, that I have lived many years in intimacy with you. It may serve the interests of mankind also to inform them,... Samuel Johnson - Page 80by Leslie Stephen - 1882 - 195 pagesFull view - About this book
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...D. BY inscribing this slight performance to you, I do not mean so muck to compliment you as myself. It may do me some honour to inform the public, that...character, without impairing the most unaffected piety. I have, particularly, reason to thank you for your partiality to this performance. The undertaking... | |
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