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1806

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THE PRESENT EDITION.

THE Editor takes the liberty of announcing to his readers, that the several Appendices of Lord Orford, which could not legally be included in the previous impression, are incorporated with the present. He has likewise introduced such corrections, emendations, and additions of his own, as have occurred in the desultory reading of sixteen years; and further this deponent sayeth not. Vale, iterum vale.

THE EDITOR'S

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FORMER EDITION IN 1806.

RELYING more on the liberal attentions experienced from my literary friends, in editing Harington's Nugæ Antiquæ, than on any presumed qualifications of my own, I undertook the arduous charge of preparing an extended edition of lord Orford's Royal and Noble Authors, which was to accompany a series of portraits suitably engraven for the decoration of such a work. The extent of assistance from private libraries, communicated or proffered, having exceeded my previous expectations, an idea suggested itself, that I might, with advantage to the

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