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"Rambler, No. 52"
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Date: Saturday, September 15, 1750
"The attention is dissipated by variety, and acts more weakly upon any single part, as that torrent may be drawn off to different channels, which, pouring down in one collected body, cannot be resisted."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)