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" Of this kind of meanness he never seems to decline the practice, or lament the necessity : he considers the great as entitled to encomiastic homage, and brings praise rather as a tribute than a gift, more delighted with the fertility of his invention,... "
The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions - Page 71
by Walter Scott - 1847
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 pages
...whom he wished to court on the morrow, new wit and virtue with another stamp. Of this kind of meanness he never seems to decline the practice, or lament...mortified by the prostitution of his judgment. It is indeed not certain, that on these occasions his judgment much rebelled against his interest. There...
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