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Coxcombs vanquish Berkeley, &c

By R. F. JOHNSON.

In Lewis's *Biography of Philosophy* (vol. iv. p. 7.) occurs the following quotation:— "And coxcombs vanquish Berkeley with a grin." Who is the author of this line? for I cannot find it in Pope, to whom a note refers it.

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