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NOT WITH A BANG BUT A WHIMPER:
The Politics and Culture of Decline

by Theodore Dalrymple
Not With a Bang But a Wimper.
 
Oh, to be in  E ngland


What Makes Doctor Johnson Great?
Theodore Dalrymple

Selected Responses:

Sent by Matthew Davis on 01-13-2007:

Hear, hear!

Well said. Voltaire is almost all sneer; there is very little sneer in Johnson.

 

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