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LONDON:
PRINȚED FOR J. BUDD, AT THE CROWN AND MITBE,

PALL MALL.

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and the love of our country, which never
glowed, perhaps, with such purity and warmth
as it does at present, in the bosom of every true
subject of the United Kingdom: a proof of the
gratitude and good sense of the people, to ap-
preciate the first and best gift of Heaven,
RATIONAL LIBERTY...
The story of Thomas Sainvitz may appear

to some to have the air of romance; but it is certainly founded on fact, and faithfully translated from the Latin original.

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ANECDOTES of Dr. Sheridan

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National Characters

29

Life of Thomas Sainvitz

37

The Prayer of Orpheus

95

Icelandic Witches

97

King of Prussia and Professor Gellert

99

Dialogue between Hands and Feet

106

Duke of Medina Celi

I10

The Flowers, a Poem, by T, Swift, Esq.

Peter the Great

113

Letter from William Lauder to Dr. Birch

1 22

The Cripple of Bethesda : a Poem, by the Rev.

Alexander Montgomery

128

Confession

132

Flattery

134

Speech of Sir Richard Stott, Recorder of Berwick,

to James Duke of York

Oliver Maillard

140

Some Account of the Origin of Literary Journals 142

Philip Duke of Orleans

144

Sir Thomas More

149

138

162

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Prior

150

Address to an old black Coat on parting with it 151

Epigram, by John Lynn, a Journeyman Baker 154

Female Fortitude

155

Cambden

156

Edmund Spencer

157

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

il.

Letter written by William Dorrington

158

Curious Dedication of a Funeral Sermon, to

Richard Cromwell

159

Lines by Lord Chief Justice Hale

by Dr. Charlton

163

Baron Wallop

ib.

La Genealogie de M. Law

165

The Ladies

166

John Dennis

169

Duke of Sully in England

170

Cardinal Wolsey

172

Doctor Magennis

173

Paul Heffernan

175

Letter from Queen Elizabeth to the Lord Trea-
surer Burghley

176

General Greene

177

Life of Thaddeus Ruddy

179

Mrs. Pilkington

199

William Salden

201

Character of a Common Fideller

203

Sortes Virgilianæ

204

206

Portrait of Bonaparte, by Mercier

Curious Account of Pamphlets

207

My Opinion, by Lord Dorset

210

Babylon