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Updated: May 20, 2025
Johnson this year expressed great satisfaction at the publication of the first volume of Discourses to the Royal Academy , by Sir Joshua Reynolds, whom he always considered as one of his literary school . Much praise indeed is due to those excellent Discourses, which are so universally admired, and for which the authour received from the Empress of Russia a gold snuff-box, adorned with her profile in bas relief, set in diamonds; and containing what is infinitely more valuable, a slip of paper, on which are written with her Imperial Majesty's own hand, the following words: 'Pour le Chevalier Reynolds en témoignage du contentement que j'ai ressentie
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