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Johnson on Jeremiah Markland, one of the editors: 'I remember,' writes Mrs. Piozzi (Anec. p. 252), ' when lamentation was made of the neglect shown to Jeremiah Markland, a great philologist, as some one ventured to call him: " He is a scholar undoubtedly, Sir," replied Dr. Johnson, "but remember that he would run from the world, and that it is not the world's business to run after him. I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark." '… (plus d'informations)