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Excerpt from A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire
It is a fact no less strange than remarkable that the more conspicuous a man is for his great mental powers, the more rarely does he leave a representative to perpetuate his name. Neither Shakespeare, nor Milton, nor Marlborough, nor Napoleon, nor Nelson, nor Walter Scott, nor Chatham, nor Edmund Burke.
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