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170 particularly, that when an officer of high rank had been acquitted by a Court Martial, George the Second had with his own hand, struck his name off the list. In short, he displayed such a power of eloquence, that Hogarth looked at him with astonishment, and actually imagined that this ideot had been at the moment inspired. Neither Hogarth nor Johnson were made known to each other at this interview.

 1740 :ÆTAT. 31.]— 1740 he wrote for the Gentleman's Magazine the 'Preface ,'† 'Life of Sir Francis Drake,'* and the first parts of those of 'Admiral Blake ,'* and of 'Philip Baretier ,* both which he finished the following year. He

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