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AN ESSAY

��ON

��THE LIFE AND GENIUS

��OF

��SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.

[LONDON: MDCCXCII.]

��1 ' For this slight Essay the Booksellers paid Mr. Murphy ,300.' Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, ix. 159.

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