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… . James Boswell’s Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript in Four Volumes, ed. Thomas F. Bonnell, 4 vol. (Edinburgh, New Haven and London: Edingburgh and Yale University Presses, 2020), vol. 4, p. 38. 5 . Philip Dormer … Earl of Chesterfield, Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son. On Men and Manners: or, A New System of Education (Edinburgh, 1775), p. 79. 6 . David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals [1751], ed. J. P. Schneewind … 2008 ) . Randall , David, The Conversational Enlightenment: The Reception of Rhetoric in Eighteenth-Century Thought ( Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019). In the DIGIT.EN.S Anthology The Fable of the Bees (1714) … ‘I wish that …
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