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Essay_601-650.indd 648 12/27/11 9:27 PM VARIANT READINGS TO ESSAYS WITH ORA WN AND UNPUBLISHED IV. OF IMPUDENCE AND MODESTY •Editions A and B, 1741-2, insert the following paragraph: I was lately lamenting to a Friend of mine, who loves a Conceit, That popular Applause should be bestowed with so little Judgment, and that so many empty forward Coxcombs should rise up to a Figure in the World: Upon which he said there was nothing surprising in the Case. Popular Fame, says he, is nothing but Breath orAir; andAirvery naturally presses into a Vacuum. VI. OF THE STUDY OF HISTORY •The reference to Lucretius was added in Edition K. ...

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