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But if an amnesty be suggested for him, it must be preceded by several admissions. It is too late to maintain, as Mr. Bailey Saunders and Mr. Eyre-todd have done in recent books and essays, that he was injured and calumniated, the victim of prejudice and unreasoning ill-will. If the world be asked to choose between him and Samuel Johnson, it will declare at once for the latter.

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