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Life of Johnson, Volume 5

Note 1023 — WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3.

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In like manner Wesley said of Rousseau:—'Sure a more consummate coxcomb never saw the sun.... He is a cynic all over. So indeed is his brother-infidel, Voltaire; and well-nigh as great a coxcomb.' Wesley's Journal,, ed. 1830, iii. 386.

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