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Life of Johnson, Volume 4, 1780-1784

Note 381 — THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. (continued 2)

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Mr. Barclay, a descendant of Robert Barclay, of Ury, the celebrated apologist of the people called Quakers, and remarkable for maintaining the principles of his venerable progenitor, with as much of the elegance of modern manners, as is consistent with primitive simplicity, BOSWELL.

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