The Lives of Henry Fielding and Samuel Johnson: Together with Essays from the Gray's-Inn Journal (Classic Reprint)

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The text of The gray's-inn Journal, although not the first edition, is the most suitable for reproduction. Num ber 104, the last of the series, was rewritten by Murphy for the two-volume 1756 edition. The 1792 edition is in all other respect identical to the original numbers ex cept for the changes in True Intelligence at the end of each number. Murphy modified this part of his period ical for inclusion in the 1786 edition, and the changes have been included in subsequent reprintings.

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