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740. History; Research/Study
"To adjust the minute events of literary history is tedious and troublesome; it requires indeed no great force of understanding, but often depends upon inquiries which there is no opportunity of making, or is to be fetched from books or pamphlets not always at hand.
Johnson: Dryden (Lives of the Poets)
Note: The meaning of "adjust" which Johnson seems to mean is "To reduce to the true state or standard; to make accurate." (Def'n 2 in his dictionary)
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