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[ The house in which she died, in Portman Square.—ED.]
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[ No doubt Simon Nicolas Henri Linguet, a French author, who published numerous works, historical and political, both before and after this date.—ED.]
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[ In the original edition: perhaps “vexation” was the word intended.—ED.]
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[ Sir John Ladd, Mr. Thrale's sister's son, a young profligate who subsequently married, not Miss Burney, but a woman of the town! Dr. Johnson's satirical verses on his coming of age are printed near the end of Boswell's “Life.”—ED.]
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[ This was not the famous philosopher and statesman, but the Rev. Thomas Franklin, D.D., who was born in 1721, and died in 1784. He published various translations from the classics, as well as plays and miscellaneous works; but is best known for his translation of Sophocles, published in 1759.—ED.]