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Excerpt from The History of the Life of King Henry the Second, and of the Age in Which He Lived, Vol. 1 of 5: To Which Is Prefixed a History of the Revolutions of England, From the Death of Edward the Confessor to the Birth of Henry the Second
We are not indeed fo intimately concerned in the tranfaétions of more remote times, as in thofe of the prefent or the lafc century; but, if we can attend, with an eager fenfe of de light, to the accounts We find, in ancient Writers, of the earlief'c ages of the Roman te public, the aé'ts of thofe mighty princes, who rendered this kingdom illufcrious 111 Europe.
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