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" ... and endeavour to make that disbelieved which he never had confidence openly to deny. He wrote an exculpatory letter to the duke, which was answered with great magnanimity, as by a man who accepted his excuse without believing his professions. "
Anecdotes of the Aristocracy: And Episodes in Ancestral Story - Page 402
by Bernard Burke - 1849
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 516 pages
...fhcker his temerity behind diffimulation, and endeavour to make that difbelieved which he never had confidence openly to deny. He wrote an exculpatory Letter to the Duke, which was anfwered with great magnanimity, as by a man who accepted his excufe without believing his profeffions....
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The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical ..., Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...fhdter his temerity behind diflimulation, and endeavour to make that 'difbelieved which he never had confidence openly to deny. He wrote an exculpatory Letter to the Duke, which was anfwered with great magnanimity, as by a man who accepted his excufe without believing his profeflions....
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The Works of the English Poets: Prefaces

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 418 pages
...flicker his temerity behind diffimulation, and •endeavour to make that dilbelieved which he never had confidence openly to deny. He wrote an exculpatory Letter to the Duke, which \s as anfwered 4 with with great magnanimity, as by a man who accepted his excufe without believing...
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prefaces biographical and crirical to the works of the english poets

samuel johnson - 1781 - 396 pages
...fhelter his temerity behind diffimulation, and endeavour to- make that dilbelieved; which he never had confidence openly. to deny. He wrote an exculpatory Letter to the Duke, which, wa& .ailfwered with great magnanimity, as by a raaa.who accepted his exeufe without be-; lieving his...
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The European Magazine, and London Review, Volume 28

English literature - 1795 - 486 pages
...flicker his temerity behind diCTimutation, and endeavoured ta make that disbelieved which he had never the confidence openly to deny ^[. He wrote an exculpatory letter to the Duke, which was anfwcred with great magnanimity, as by я man who accepted his excufc without believing his profeffions...
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Biographical Anecdotes of William Hogarth: With a Catalogue of His Works ...

John Nichols - Painters - 1785 - 776 pages
...ttinciiiy •c bthind dillimulation, and endeavour to make that disbelieved «' which he never had confidence openly to deny. He wrote •' an exculpatory letter to the Duke, which wa« anfwered " with great magnanimity, as by a man who accepted hi) " excufe without believing his...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets (concluded). Miscellaneous lives

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...fhelter his temerity behind diffimulation> and endeavour to make that difbelieved which he never had confidence openly to deny. He wrote an exculpatory letter to the Duke, which was anfwered with great magnanimity, as by a man who accepted his cxcufe without believing his profeffions....
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The lives of the most eminent English poets (concluded). Miscellaneous lives

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...fhelter his temerity behind diffimulation, and endeavour to make that difbelieved which he never had confidence openly to deny. He wrote an exculpatory letter to the Duke, which was anfwered. with great magnanimity, as by a man who accepted his excufe without believing his profeffions....
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 676 pages
...flicker his temerity behind diflimulation, and endeavour to make that dilbelieved which he never had confidence openly to deny. He wrote an exculpatory letter to the Duke, which was anfwered with great magnanimity, as by a man who accepted his excufe without believing his profeffions....
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The ambulator; or, The stranger's companion in a tour round London ...

John Bew - 1793 - 330 pages
...fhclter his temerity bihind diffimulation, and to endeavour to make that dlibelieved? which he MTcr had confidence openly to deny. He wrote an exculpatory letter to the Duke, which was anfwered with great magnanimity, rs fay a man -who accepted his excufe without believing his profeffions."...
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