I Have Discovered That We May Be

Many Infidels Have Maintained That Ignorance Is The Mother Of Devotion.

The Connection Between Authors, Printers, And Booksellers Must Be Kept Up.

I Am Now To Offer Some Thoughts Upon That Sameness Or Familiarity Which We Frequently Find Between Passages In Different Authors Without Quotation. This May Be One Of Three Things Either What Is Called Plagiarism, Or Imitation, Or Coincidence.

My Mind Was, As It Were, Strongly Impregnated With The Johnsonian Ether.

I Make It A Kind Of Pious Rule To Go To Every Funeral To Which I Am Invited, Both As I Wish To Pay A Proper Respect To The Dead, Unless Their Characters Have Been Bad, And As I Would Wish To Have The Funeral Of My Own Near Relations Or Of Myself Well Attended.