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2.] [Footnote 220: _Life of Richardson_.] [Footnote 221: We gather from Scott's article that he considered the following to be the chief "speculative errors" of Bage: he was an infidel; he misrepresented different classes of society, thinking the high tyrannical and the low virtuous and generous; his system of ethics was founded on philosophy instead of religion; he was inclined to minimize the importance of purity in women; he considered tax-gatherers extortioners, and soldiers, licensed murderers.] [Footnote 222: _Lockhart_, Vol.

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I, p.192.In his _George the Third_, Thackeray said: "Do you remember the verses--the sacred verses--which Johnson wrote on the death of his humble friend Levett ?" (Biographical edition of Thackeray, Vol.