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Pitt, Prime-Minister though he was, in the spring of the same year, was called to order by the Speaker, for charging a member with using 'language the most false, the most malicious, and the most slanderous. Ib. p. 763. Epistles to Mr. Pope, ii. 165. See an account of him, in a sermon by the Reverend Mr. Agutter. BOSWELL. This sermon was published in 1788.
Agutter, of Magdalen College . The Lives, the Memoirs, the Essays, both in prose and verse, which have been published concerning him, would make many volumes. The numerous attacks too upon him, I consider as part of his consequence, upon the principle which he himself so well knew and asserted . Many who trembled at his presence, were forward in assault, when they no longer apprehended danger.
Let me add, as a proof of the popularity of his character, that there are copper pieces struck at Birmingham, with his head impressed on them, which pass current as half-pence there, and in the neighbouring parts of the country. It is not yet published. In a letter to me, Mr. Agutter says, 'My sermon before the University was more engaged with Dr. Johnson's moral than his intellectual character.
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