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Surely the words 'had not much to say' imply that Johnson had heard the answer, but thought little of its wit. According to Mr. Croker, the repartee is given in Ruffhead's Life of Pope, and this book Johnson had seen. Ante, ii. 166. Let me here express my grateful remembrance of Lord Somerville's kindness to me, at a very early period.
To the perpetual memory of which thing, We, the aforesaid Prelates, have put our seals to these presents." Statutes of the Realm, vol. 1, p. 6. Ruffhead's Statutes, vol. 1, p. 20. The statute is usually entitled. Ch. 1. "Edward, by the Grace of God, King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Guyan, To all those that these presents shall hear or see, Greeting.
M. Foulet, however, has examined Ruffhead's charge in a very different spirit, with conscientious minuteness, and has concluded that it is utterly without foundation. It is, indeed, certain that Voltaire's acquaintanceship was not limited to the extremely bitter Opposition circle which centred about the disappointed and restless figure of Bolingbroke.
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