Note 1216 — THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. (continued 7)
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Dr. Johnson related, with very earnest approbation, a story of a gentleman, who, in an impulse of passion, overcame the virtue of a young woman. When she said to him, 'I am afraid we have done wrong!' he answered, 'Yes, we have done wrong;—for I would not debauch her mind.' BOSWELL.