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Excerpt from An History of England, in a Series of Letters From a Nobleman to His Son, Vol. 1
I shall not ms: St upon a principal uée to which some apply the English history, I mean that of making 1t the topic of common conversanon, yet, even from such a motive, though in itself tri¿ing, no wfiell bi ed man can plead 1gnorance. Its greatest advantage, however, is that a know-fi 1 ledge of the past enables the attentive mind to understand thep resent: our laws and customs.
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