Arrange the following prose works in chronological order:
- A. Carlyle, Past and Present
- B. Hobbes, Leviathan
- C. Ruskin, Unto This Last
- D. Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson
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Correct answer: A. B, D, A, C
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Leviathan (1651) → Life of Johnson (1791) → Past and Present (1843) → Unto This Last (1860).
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