Modern Literature: A Novel, Volume 3Longman, 1804 |
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Page 166 - ... no more to obtain thefe than the trouble of being born. Amongft this lift of privileged perfons, virtues, talents, and genius, muft of courfe be much lefs frequent than in the other...