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 300 Recollections by Miss Reynolds.

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the progress of his education had a double tendency to brighten and to obscure it. But I must observe, that this obscurity \ (implying only his awkward uncouth appearance, his ignorance \ of the rules of politeness, &c.) would have gradually disappeared at a more advanced period, at least could have had no manner of influence to the prejudice of Dr. Johnson's character, had it not been associated with those corporeal defects above mentioned. But, unhappily, his untaught, uncivilized manner seemed to render every little indecorum or impropriety that he committed doubly indecorous and improper.

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