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Life of Johnson, Volume 4, 1780-1784

Note 1099 — THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. (continued 6)

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It was on this day that he wrote the prayer given below (p. 370) in which is found that striking line—'this world where much is to be done and little to be known.'

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