OLIVER GOLDSMITH'S LIFE AND TIMES, rBooKn.

1757, his articles, and, as it suited their ignorance or convenience,
JRt. 2fl. wholly altered them ; and, finally, that no part of the con-
tract had been broken by himself, he having always worked
Incessantly every day from nine o'clock till two,* and on
apeeial days of the week from an carlior hour until Into at
night. Proof of tho most curious part of this counter-
Ktateinont, as to interpolation of tho articles, was in. the
possession of his firnt biographers ; and an it now appears,
from a published letter of Doctor Campbell to Bishop Percy,
was at tho last moment, in fear of aimso from reviewers,

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