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Life of Johnson, Volume 5

Note 1095 — THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11.

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Boswell italicises this word, I think, because Johnson objected to the misuse of it. '"Sir," said Mr. Edwards, "I remember you would not let us say prodigious at college."' Ante, iii. 303.

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