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Prose Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
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Additions to the Life and Character of that Prelate; prefixed to those Works, acknowl.
Various Papers and Letters in Favour of the Reverend Dr. Dodd. acknowl.
1780. Advertisement for his Friend Mr. Thrale to the Worthy Electors of the Borough of Southwark. acknowl
The first Paragraph of Mr. Thomas Davies's Life of Garrick. acknowl.
1781. Prefaces Biographical and Critical to the Works of the most eminent English Poets; afterwards published with the Title of Lives of the English Poets[1], acknowl.
Argument on the Importance of the Registration of Deeds; dictated to me for an Election Committee of the House of Commons, acknowl.
On the Distinction between Tory and Whig; dictated to me. acknowl.
On Vicarious Punishments, and the great Propitiation for the Sins of the World, by Jesus Christ; dictated to me. acknowl.
Argument in favour of Joseph Knight, an African Negro, who claimed his Liberty in the Court of Session in Scotland, and obtained it; dictated to me. acknowl.
Defence of Mr. Robertson, Printer of the Caledonian Mercury, against the Society of Procurators in Fldinburgh, for having inserted in his Paper a ludicrous Paragraph against them; demonstrating that it was not an injurious Libel; dictated to me. acknowl.
1782. The greatest part, if not the whole, of a Reply, by the Reverend Mr. Shaw, to a Person at Edinburgh, of the Name of Clark, refuting his arguments for the authenticity of the Poems published by Mr. James Macpherson as Translations from Ossian. intern. evid.
1784. List of the Authours of the Universal History, deposited in the British Museum, and printed in the Gentleman's Magazine for December, this year, acknowl.
  1. The first four volumes of the Lives were published in 1779, the last six in 1781.
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