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Nor did her Fears deceive her: Never was a Family more distracted than that of Myrtano's, the reliefs and indignant Temper of his Wife being, by his keeping a watchful Eye over all her Actions, prevented from bursting out in publick, she'd itself in the most trivial Concerns.

Idalia, or, The Unfortunate Mistress: A Novel 1725

Person who he had never, more than at a Distance, admir'd: – That he had indeed, spoke to her in publick Company, but that he never had a Thought which tended to her Dishonour.

Fantomina: or, Love in a Maze, Being a Secret History of an Amour Between Two Persons of Condition 1725

Sun; otherwise the publick will be apt to fix the place of my birth in

Letter 36 2009

But, though the rule of Pliny be judiciously laid down, it is not applicable to the writer's cause, because there always lies an appeal from domestick criticism to a higher judicature, and the publick, which is never corrupted, nor often deceived, is to pass the last sentence upon literary claims.

The Rambler, sections 1-54 (1750); from The Works of Samuel Johnson, in Sixteen Volumes, Volume I 1750

No. 23: "the publick, which is never corrupted, nor often deceived, is to pass the last sentence upon literary claims."

A Pindarick Ode on Painting Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq. Thomas Morrison 1741

Majesties hands, it may satisfie any reasonable _Englishman_, that the same Laws have provided for the mispending of the Treasury, by calling the publick Officers into question for it before the Parliament.

His Majesties Declaration Defended John Dryden 1665

I verfal poverty, enriches the publick, that is, the king.

The Monthly Review 1772

He seemed to me to be considered as a kind of publick oracle, whom every body thought they had a right to visit and consult; and doubtless they were well rewarded.

The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

He seemed to me to be considered as a kind of publick oracle, whom every body thought they had a right to visit and consult [343]; and doubtless they were well rewarded.

Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

He seemed to me to be considered as a kind of publick oracle, whom every body thought they had a right to visit and consult [343]; and doubtless they were well rewarded.

Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 James Boswell 1767