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Excerpt from Anecdotes of the Life of the Right Hon. William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, Vol. 1 of 2: And of the Principal Events of the Time; With His Speeches in Parliament, From the Year 1736 to the Year 1778
The Memoirs Of fuch a man {hould be written by the fill't Hifiorian Of the Age. This work allumes an humbler rank in literature. It goes forth with no other claim to public notice, than, that of being A Colleétion Of Fugitive Papers and Anecdotes; many of them known to feveral perfons, now living, but all of them to very few. In fine, the prelent pub lication is the effeé't of indufiry, not of ability.
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