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Excerpt from The Annual Necrology, for 1797-8, Vol. 1: Including, Also, Various Articles of Neglected Biography
In fine, a proper vehicle has hitherto been wanting: for the mod: obvious and important occurrences, if not communicated while yet recent, foon become either obliterated by time, or ob fcured by tradition, and leave only a few mutilated facts, or on conneaed fi'agments, for the information of the future narrator, and the regret of pofierity.
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