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Dr Johnson, Mrs Thrale, Oliver Goldsmith and others : Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth

'Doctor Beattie, author of the celebrated book on Truth, was much the Subject of Conversation, the whole company concurring in the Praise of so able and useful a Writer; Here is much ado about nothing cries Doctor Goldsmith why the Man has written but one Book, and I have writ several. So you have Doctor replies Mr Johnson but there go many Halfpence remember - to one Guinea'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Dr Johnson, Mrs Thrale, Oliver Goldsmith and others     Print: Book

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