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Life of Johnson, Volume 4, 1780-1784

Note 898 — THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. (continued 5)

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See ante, p. 166. He may have taken the more to Fox, as he had taken to Beauclerk (ante, i. 248), on account of his descent from Charles II. Fox was the great-great-grandson of that king. His Christian names recall his Stuart ancestry.

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