Johnsoniana.- "A Civilian". Free Thoughts on Seduction, Adultery, and Divorce..., half-title, publisher's advertisement f. at end, even browning and soiling, scattered spotting, 19th-century half speckled calf, rebacked preserving earlier spine, repairs at head and foot, a little worn, 8vo, for J.Bell, 1771. ⁂On p.83 the author seeks a definition of adultery: he defers to Bailey's Universal Etymological English Dictionary, and notes "I do not mention Johnson, and that merely because, like an idler he took almost every thing upon trust; indeed I do not know a more striking example of the truth of the old Greek proverb, 'a great book is a great evil' than Johnson's dictionary".
Johnsoniana.- "A Civilian". Free Thoughts on Seduction, Adultery, and Divorce..., half-title, publisher's advertisement f. at end, even browning and soiling, scattered spotting, 19th-century half speckled calf, rebacked preserving earlier spine, repairs at head and foot, a little worn, 8vo, for J.Bell, 1771. ⁂On p.83 the author seeks a definition of adultery: he defers to Bailey's Universal Etymological English Dictionary, and notes "I do not mention Johnson, and that merely because, like an idler he took almost every thing upon trust; indeed I do not know a more striking example of the truth of the old Greek proverb, 'a great book is a great evil' than Johnson's dictionary".
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