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...But let us come to what may be called Dr. Johnson's superstitions. It was his care to go in or out at a door or passage, by a certain number of steps from a certain point, or at least so that either his right or his left foot (it was not known which,) should constantly make the first actual...

...which were early contracted. One was that of " going out or in at a door or passage," says Boswell, "by a certain number of steps from a certain point, or, at least, so that either his right or left foot should constantly make the first movement, when he came close to...

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...stretch out and then convulsively draw back his leg. His biographer relates that it ' was his constant anxious care to go out or in at a door or passage, ... so as that either his right or his left foot should constantly make the first actual movement;...

...stretch out and then convulsively draw back his leg. His biographer relates that it ' was his constant anxious care to go out or in at a door or passage, ... so as that either his right or his left foot should constantly make the first actual movement;...

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