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Life of Johnson, Volume 5

Note 236 — SATURDAY, AUGUST 31.

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Goldsmith in Retaliation, a few months later, wrote of William Burke:—'Would you ask for his merits? alas! he had none; What was good was spontaneous, his faults were his own.' See ante, iii 362, note 2.

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