The life of Samuel Johnson, and the journal of his tour to the Hebrides . \ ^Y -?^ ^^ ^^^y-^speet worthy of the pen of Us learned \ ^-A> / ^or,areyet,, that the character of the Deeeased as a Wnter \?^, VV\ / partienlarly as a Poet, ts perhaps not delineated ..ith all the eeeaetness .hiehDr. Johnson ,s capaMe of giving it. „„ ,,,,,^„,, ,,^,, ,,^,^,^,,^^^. ^^ ^^^.^ ^^^^^^^^^jndgnunt, hnntUy re,„est that he ..ould at least take the trouble of revising: and of ,naUng sneh additions and alterations as he shall think a ftirt/ier perusal Ruf ,v • / they would lead us to re

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The life of Samuel Johnson, and the journal of his tour to the Hebrides . \ ^Y -?^ ^^ ^^^y-^speet worthy of the pen of Us learned \ ^-A> / ^or,areyet,, that the character of the Deeeased as a Wnter \?^, VV\ / partienlarly as a Poet, ts perhaps not delineated ..ith all the eeeaetness .hiehDr. Johnson ,s capaMe of giving it. „„ ,,,,,^„,, ,,^,, ,,^,^,^,,^^^. ^^ ^^^.^ ^^^^^^^^^jndgnunt, hnntUy re,„est that he ..ould at least take the trouble of revising: and of ,naUng sneh additions and alterations as he shall think a ftirt/ier perusal Ruf ,v • / they would lead us to reanest thnf /,, . ?i eqnest that he would -write the Epitaph in English rather than in Latin- a, ^,, ,7,- r .r J-atin. as we think that the memory of so eminent an English Writer ouo-hf /, / . <s iviuu ought to be perpetuated in the language to whieh his Works are likely to Be so lasting an ornament, whieh we also know / ^\ to have been the opinion of the lateDoctor

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